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Free Eoads. 
Employment of Soldiers in times of Peace. 
Capital Punishment. 
Intra-mural Interments. 
Cruelty to Animals. 
Uses of Waste Materials. 
Bankruptcy. 
Training of Soldiers. 
The essay occupies over forty quarto pages of M.S.., and is 
much too long to give entire. I will therefore quote such parts of 
it as will show that the writer was no ordinary man, and that his 
taste for natural history had not prevented him from thinking 
upon what are usually deemed more important matters. 
On the choice of a Profession or Trade. 
“ The next mistake I shall mention in training up a youth, is 
the irrational method followed by most parents, in chosing the 
trade or employment designed for their children ; here they are 
guided chiefly by pride or avarice or some other particular whim as 
bad, without in the least considering their genius or abilities, so it 
often happens, a Clergyman, a Lawyer, or Physician, would, if duly 
examined at their first setting out, been found better fitted to 
handle the Plane or Hatchet. And he who now is busied in tilling 
the ground, might have been one of the First-Bate in the Bejmblick 
of Letters.” 
“ To remedy this error,” he would have the child examined 
by some judicious person, to test the capabilities and aptitudes 
of the child. “ For which purpose I would have in every 
Parish some ingenious skilful person or other appointed, who 
should have authority given him to inspect into the Genius & 
abilities of all Children, before they are put out to Trades or 
Employment, which they are designed to follow for their Lives, 
and if this Person’s opinion was not imposed as a Law, yet every 
wise Man would pay great respect to it, when he was satisfied the 
future Welfare of his child depended thereon.” 
In a foot-note to this paragraph Arderon remarks : “ I would 
have this done by the Schoolmaster of the Parish, but indeed as 
they are now commonly qualified they are very unfit for this Office, 
