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THE INSTITUTIONS OF HQFWYk. . 23
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influenced Ms whole after-life was the necessity of an education entirely different from that then prevailed in Europe , and which
any should _extend comprehend to the- moral the as well wants as of the every intellectual class of and society physical , and nature should _^ of his
of countrymen man . Penetrated , his words with at this pity epoch for the were moral , " Born degradation worth as I am of one of
which the eminence aristocracy is inconsistent by deserving of Switzerland with it . the I , will welfare let p me lace of show every my myself fellow distinction -creature y of s , rank upon pre- ,
the With altar these of my views country De . " Fellenberg purchased the estate of Hofwyl , lans for
near Bernewhere he hoped to carry out his disinterested p the ( of the good patrician of , others famil . About of Tcharner this time ) who he bore married him twelve a Bernese children lady ,
six of whom lived to become y his devoted coadjutors . The young wife he entered warml to y her into that her husband they should 's philanthrop part with ic
their plans j ; ewels and and when commencement plate , proposed to devote of his the work proceeds she cheerfull to founding consented a poor schoolas the , y ,
and thus , in the exercise of Christian self-denial , was laid the foundation , -stone of those institutions which _wexe afterwards to
become celebrated throughout the world . The estate of Hofwyl consisted at this time of about in extent 200 acres
invention Fellenberg of land , but in had the was an mechanical afterwards intense love art more . for It agriculture than was his doubled aim and to great improve skill . and the De
agriculture educational of ideas his for country all classes at the . same At once time he that made he carried his own out estate his of mind
that out an agricultural in enabled his system him model to of grasp agriculture for his all countrymen the the bearings improvements . of With a subject powers which , he learned carried Continent the
societies had achieved in England and the during last important half-century point ; for but while his the views agriculturists differed most of Eng materiall land were y on satis one
fied this to as improve the culminating , their different point in species their of system cattle , De , and Fellenberg looked upon conend
sidered these improvements but as means to an . of To the rescue objects the of laboring his life ; classes and considering from of the moral surest that degradation tests the reformation of the was correct one of
the ness destitute essay first of in his education instance children educational of would in abandoned an princi prove agricultural ples one children , he school determined taken . This from to was make the formed nei his ghbor first in - - house
hoodand located with their master in the farm-belonging Fellenberg institution to the , estate , which in . 1807 Soon should , , - to however erect receive a , the large a number success building of of the this as an children school agricultural led of the De have mentioned
peasantry , besides those of the destitute class we .
The Institutions Of Hqfwyk. . 23
THE INSTITUTIONS OF _HQFWYk . _. 23
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/23/
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