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    their frames . It was at a school , a boys' school , that I passe ^ this happy fortnight , and saw all these wonders ! Aye , among thirty-six boys of all ages , froin five to sixteen years . It wif from first to last and on every side , in all regulations ; and every result of regulation was a contribution to domestic hapr piness and enjoyment ; the least dimmed by cloudy thoughts .

    the least ruffled by frowns of reproof or inquietude ; the most cheerful continued domestic happiness and enjoyment it has been my lot to witness during my whole life . Nor wasf I in the least surprised , by what I saw , and by the gladness it gave me . I was delighted , indeed , but nothing astonished to find it was really true ; that a number of boys at school could be renr dered thus happy , thus docile , frank , quick of perception , delighted with lessons , affectionate and confident with their

    teachers , and kind , gleeful and generous in impulse , habit and character ; that through all the gradations , and shades of difference , these pleasant features could be made visible in fitci and existence , not in mere form . No ; I knew nothing more was required to develope and expand these moral and mental beauties , in any congregated number of school boys , than ability in the instructors ; the union of capacious intellect , clearness of discrimination and sound judgment , with a heart

    of kindly affections , and an ever unruffled patience of temper , and fatigueless perseverence . Such a union I found here , and such were the delightful spirit-stirring results . I cannot buf : feel somewhat egotistical on this subject , and I think such a feeling is more laudable than blameable ; I seem to regard it as a triumph of my own ; I am confirmed in the truth of iffaat I had often asserted , that a school governed on sueh and such

    principles , and conducted by such and such feelings and capabilities , could not fail of producing such results every where and any where ; and now , to the doubts and sneers of pity and ridicule of my visionary Utopia , and fny dreamy enthusiasms , and the laughs at my preposterous folly , I can reply by pointing triumphantly to Mr Heldenmaier ' s establishment at Worksop , in Nottinghamshire , as a joyous and brilliant refutation . I am now assured of what I have thought , and have had 9

    the effrontery to say too , in the fape of some ' education * professors , who have " tried the plan and found it would not answer ; " viz ., that they were deficient in the necessary patient firmness , that they had taken upon themselves an office for which they were , unfitted either in head or in heart , or they had not courage to resist the demands of the silly vanity , and gi ^ ed of mere show in the parents . And , to iny thinking , it if not

    the least ; of its beauties that this establishment is , in all its divisions and arrangements , its particulars , prominences , and ittee&fftSji honest and utterly free from any glimmer of inflated

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    Fourteen Daps at Suheol 119

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/72/