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20 THE INSTITITTIONS OF HOFWYI*.
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and principles which , we consider of vital importance in connexion ¦ with , education . commenced .
labors he has It taug become is , " ht but more ; Eng and the than land great we fift believe lias political y years as , yet at and since the but social present De imperfectl Fellenberg que perio stion y received d _* of when the the education day truths , it Ms is
more important . than ever that such views as the founder of _Hofwyl spent That a fife which in we develop most ing admire should in be the generall Institutions y promul of De gated Fellenberg . ,
and which was the source of all his strength and success , is the "Christibasis on wliich he erected his superstructure . At a period
an when considered Europe revelation was inundated at best but with a infidelity myth , and , when openl her y avowed learned their men the cham
p pernicious ion of Christianity principles . , De He Fellenberg traced the boldl revolutionary y of stood revelation forth excesses as and of main his
day tained to their the importance right cause— and -viz necessit . the disregard y of the Holy Scriptures - _^ r- as the
insp "We ired see guide in our of man own and days rule that of every his life thing . To which use his parents own , words which , of hearts
naturewhich conscience , and the observation our own can accomp " Our , own lish for the " said moral this development truly great of man children , " like , is others inadequate has its . "
moral evils to age encounter , — -those of a corrupt and selfish heart _^ _> of a proud and conceited scepticism arid , of dangerous revolutions theories The human and innova mind
tionsand of awful sweeping . has receive , d a wondrous intellectual enlightenment , mighty for good or for evilwith which our educators have not kept pace in their mor _& l
their training classical . , A new and race natural of educators knowled is demanded that , who rock shall -alone base where all
the waves of ruin cannot reach it ge the upon Rock of Ages- _^ -the rock of revelation as a system of practical , morals based upon the rock , of
Christ and of God . " It will be seen in the sketch we now offer , that De Fellenberg's Institutionof
formation Hofwy greatest l , that anxiety of reli sound g was ious Christian to and insure moral princi , throug influence le hout alike which all in the the should prince tend and to s the the
peasant adaptation . To to the this progress marked feature of the age in p , his we , system wish particularl , and its remarkable y to direct
attention . . ' rators This of great education man , in who modern was de times stined was to prove born one in 1771 of the at regene Berne - .
patriotism His father , was while of his a high mother patrician was the famil , granddaug y , eminent hter for of , virtue the cele and - and
influence Ibrated Dutch of this admiral noble-hearted Van Tromp woman . * To we may the earl ascribe y lessons , in a great les which afterwards led Pe
in Fellenberg measure a sketch , the to of formation devote his early his days of life those , to the philanthrop princi effect p produced ical objects upon . his He mind records , by _-
her maternal devotion and instructions .
20 The Institittions Of Hofwyi*.
20 THE _INSTITITTIONS OF HOFWYI _* .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/20/
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