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« xamplesof maternal love and care in the superintendants of some of these seminaries ; and , even con . ceding that their affection for their
charge yields to a mother ' s , most of them possess a judgment and a steadiness of temper which better qualify them than the bulk of parents in humble circumstances for
the work of education . But Mrs . C * rests c ' the final appeal " -with the parents them , selves . " Where / ' she demands ( 29 , ) u shall we find one , among the virtuous , honest and industrious , who , having the privilege
of sending their children to a dayschool , would not much rather retain them , and more especially their little daughters , under their own roof till they are of age to go to service , than consign them , almost during infancy , to a charityschool ?"
Alas ! in the present condition of society many a virtuous , honest and industrious parent is unable to maintain his children . Hence the importunate desire be expresses to procure for them the advantages of a charity-school where
they may be lodged and boarded . I am describing a state of things which I have repeatedly witnessed ; though I feel great pleasure in adding , that a conviction of the beneficial superintendance which some of these seminaries exercise
over the inmates of them , has not unfrequently stimulated the desire . I think , with Mrs . C , that " the benevolent exertions of our humane and pious ancestors are to be held in estimation . " The
schools which they founded and patronized , were particularly cal - culated for the wants of their country at the period when they lived . An increased and increas .
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population demands additional and , on some spots , other means and opportunities of instruction . If , therefore , the ancient and well
regulated charity-school , is likely to paralyze our exertions in supporting the institutions set on foot by 44 a Raikes , a Lancaster , and a Bell , " let it be abandoned . To
me , I own , it appears that in evert / large town and neighbourhood there is ample scope both for charity and day . schools : sufficient opulence and usually sufficient public spirit rnav be found in
such situations for both ; while each plan embraces rather different objects of benevolence , and may be considered as requiring and admitting some variety of talent .
It is allowed by Mrs . Cappe herself ( 30 , ) that ' . ' to orphans the fostering care of a well-regulated charity-school might surely prove a real blessing . " And
orphansj and those who resemble orphansy are exceedingly numerous . The children of persons once in the middle classes of society , but now reduced to poverty , might , I presume , be received into
asylums of this kind with particular advantage and propriety . Let charity-schools be limited to cases that are judiciously selected from the vast number of applicants for this assistance ; while day-schools
are necessarily more popular and less discriminating * Thus they will be usefully distinguished from each other , like hospitals and dispensaries , to which they are , in many respects , severally
analogous . I have been the rather solicitous , Mr . Editor , to put in this plea for those charity . sehools in which a comparatively small number of
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On Charity and Day-Schools . 545
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/21/
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