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    lihttiFe , in which weariness and vapidity seize them , and they become mischievous in self-defence . From the same cause they often become greedy and gluttonous ; how natural for the victim of vacuity to long for dinner , and to delay over it 5 it is not only a gratification to his appetite , but it affords employ * ment , and breaks the dull succession of unoccupied hours .

    Compare with him the joyous urchin , just broke forth from aome plebeian school , who , having been busy all the morning ( to what purpose we will not say ) falls to , to busy himself again with stones , straws , snow-balls , or any game of riot and revelry that the rest of his little fellow-emancipists may propose . Dinner is with him dispatched in a parenthesis , and he rushes once more to gay employment , ere the graver work of school

    begins again . Compare this lifesome , eager , noisy , breathleftfe Being , with arms , legs , lungs , all in exercise , with the poor little patrician ( of whatever class ) , who , having had a morning saunter , with , perhaps , a stupid , silly , and certainly ignorant nursemaid , peeps , for the rest of the day , through the bars of his prison , on the second or third floor of his father ' s house .

    I know , vagrant as is the attention of children in general , that to find them employment , or , what is better , to put them in a way of finding it for themselves , is difficult , and , under the circumstances in which manv are placed , particularly soj

    but it is an imperative duty , and there is this encouragement , that in setting a human creature properly to work , we are put * ting in action a machine which generates its own power , and therefore almost all the trouble consists in the beginning : let us remember also that a stream for which a channel is made

    will flow on easily and freely , whereas one which , instead of a channel , finds a check , wiil refuse to flow at all , but stagnate and engender all the consequences of stagnation . " It is , ' says Dr Arnott , " one of the improvements yet td

    be made in our systems of education for various professions , to cultivate more methodically the use of the hands . Children And young people , in obtaining practical familiarity . with ingenious toys , tools of carpentry , games of address , musical instru ^ ments , 8 cc . &c , are often fitting themselves for the important

    business of their future life / But not merely does the want of employment produce in chiU dren mischief and gluttony , but evils even yet more fatal to their after-chance of happiness and usefulness . The weary waste of time , amid broken or inanimate toys , produces a feeling of misery , which , if resisted and bewailed , spoils the temper , ag a bird beating against the bars of its cage spoils its wing . If the dull wretchedness be quietly submitted to , the child sinks gradually inty slothfulness , from which it will be equally painful and difficult to arouse him . Days Spent in lounging about

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/52/