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28 THE INSTITUTIONS OF HOFWYX *
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public attention was not sufficiently aroused to the subject of education for the princiles of De Fellenberg to be fully
understood , and only partial p results were the direct consequence ; though weapprehend it would be found that these . . efforts to spread
De Fellenberg ' s enlarged views have had indirectly a most important share in the educational progress of the present day . We
believe the first practical attempt to realize De Fellenberg ' s views in England was made by Lady Byron , on her own estate , in
agricultural schools for the poor . We must not suppose that though England , with one or two
noble exceptions , was so long in rendering justice to the Institutions of Hofwylthat other countries were slow in appreciating their
, merits . Two successive kings of Wurtemburg visited De Fellenbergy
and subsequently institutions on the model of Hofwyl were formed in Wurtemburg . The crown princes of Austria , Russia , Denmark ;
Bavaria , and the Grand Duke of Weimar , were among the illustrious persons who visited Hofwyl ; while th . e Great Alexander of Russia
was so attached to the views of the Swiss philanthropist , that , had he livedit was his intention to have formed in Bussiar model
institutions , combining all that was found in Hofwyl . All ambassadors to Switzerland were required to send reports of
this educational state , and some countries sent special ambassadors to examine into the system pursued .
Institutions of a similar character were formed in other countries , and it would be difficult to say to what civilized country directly or
indirectly the influence of De Fellenberg has not extended , for boys of every European state were placed there ;• while the report of an
American clergyman , who devoted two years to an examination of Hofwyl and its institutionsled to many young Americans being
, placed with the Swiss educationist . In 1831 De . Fellenberg made a most disinterested offer to the Bernese Government , to sell the
entire Institutions of Hofwyl at a sacrifice of £ 12 , 000 . A year's trial was to be givenduring which the institutions were to be
managed as a national , concern . This generous offer was refused , and De Fellenberg then endeavored to find some one to succeed
him . Illness suddenly arrested the career of this illustrious man ; a
cold caught from riding into Berne on a wet day turned to bronchitis , from the effects of which he never recovered . With
calmness he awaited his last hour , assuring his family that he was fore in the be enjoyment anxious about of peace him . with He God died , and at that one in they the need morning not there 1 on
-, the 21 st November , 1844 , being in his seventy-fourth year . As soon as day broke the Protestant clergyman of Hofwyl , Mr ,
Gerlach , announced his death to the establishment , and led them into the chapel . After prayer , Mr . Gerlach informed the inmates
of Hofwyl that the last wish of De Fellenberg , relative to the
28 The Institutions Of Hofwyx *
28 THE _INSTITUTIONS OF _HOFWYX _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/28/
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