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10. Social peace can only be pre- 
served by enlightening them and di- 
recting them well in their youth, so 
as to make them useful and popular 
leaders. Thus preventing revolu- 
tions, and the strife of ambitious 
hypocrites directing the rabble. 
11. The worthy Fellenberg has 
given up his time and fortune for 
thirty years, to put in practice these 
improvements. He was once much 
opposed by the aristocracy of Berne 
in which Canton, his estate of Hof- 
wyl is situated. But he has over- 
come all opposition and succeeded 
to make Switzerland the centre of 
European civilization. 
12. This was done without any 
ultimate expense, nor diminishing 
his estate, since it was found that 
the schools supported themselves by 
the labor of the poor, and the pay 
of the rich. 
13. The liberals applaud his la- 
bors, the servile tremble. Some 
monarchs have forbidden their sub- 
jects to send their children to it; yet 
it is always filled by the liberals and 
the Swiss. 
14. It has been said that such im- 
provements and knowledge made so 
cheap, maybeabused. But Fellen- 
berg has proved that their use may 
be regulated, and all the abuses re- 
pressed. 
15. From 1809 to 1821, or du- 
ring twelve years, the only expenses 
or advances were S3. 600, or only 
8 300 per annum: while many thou- 
sands nave been educated at Hofwyl. 
Thus hardly one dollar expense for 
each student on an average. 
16. The establishments of Hofwyl 
consist of eight schools or institu- 
tions. 1. Model Farm. 2. Expe- 
rimental Farm. 3. Agricultural 
Factory. 4. School for Boys. 5. 
School for Girls. 6. Institute, or 
Superior School. 7. Agricultural 
School. 8. Normal School. 
17. The model farm is cultivated 
with the greatest care, with the most 
perfect implements and machines, 
and with the least number of cattle. 
Whereby Fellenberg obtains more 
produce with less labor, and sets 
an example to all. 
18. The experimental farm and 
garden is used to test every kind of 
new practices and improvements; 
whenever their utility has been 
proved, they are introduced in the 
model farm. This is a very benefi- 
cial school of improvement. 
19. The third branch or manufac- 
ture of agricultural implements and 
machines is a most interesting and 
wonderful establishment. It receives 
models from all countries. Nothing 
is adopted or rejected without testing 
by experiments. It is a complete 
application of mechanics to all the 
branches of agriculture. It supplies 
new useful tools and machines to all 
Switzerland and Europe. 
20. In the school for bojs they 
are admitted from five to twenty. 
They support, feed and instruct 
themselves by their own labor in 
the farm and factory. 
21. The instruction consists in 
practical agriculture, reading, wri- 
ting, arithmetic, geometry, agronomic 
botany and natural history, abridged 
history, geography, drawing, modern 
languages, music, gymnastics, &c. 
It is found that the methods of natu- 
ral sciences form the mind of youth 
to order better than languages; 
when riper mathematics are ad- 
ded. 
22. If any child shows genius of 
extraordinary talents for any thing, 
he is taken to the superior school or 
institute, and thus every poor child 
has a chance to become a member of 
the superior class by his talents and 
exertions. 
23. The monitorial plan is adopt- 
ed for every thing; the monitors are 
selected from the best scholars, and 
may be superseded by others: thus 
keeping up the moral influence of a 
co-equal emulation. 
24. The students are treated like 
the adopted children of their teach- 
ers. They are made happy in labor, 
meals, games and recreations. Thus 
a domestic and public education is 
happily blended. They have plenty 
