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Mrs . Cappe on Charity and Day-Schools . York , Oct . 29 , 1814 . Sir ; Before I attempt to reply to my friendly opponent , N in your Number for last month , [ IX .
542 ] it may be expedient to examine wherein we differ , for although I cannot but prefer , for reasons already assigned , a Day-School for the children of parents that are decent and industrious , and must demur as to the expediency of receiving those to board and lodgej whose parents on the contrary are wicked and
profligate , yet I never denied that there might be , and that there actually were many children so unfortunately circumstanced , and particularly in the case of orphans , that a boarding-school in respect to them , would be more desirable than a day-school . Now , Mr ,
Editor , if I understand your correspondent aright , this is all , or nearly all for which he contends ; for he allows , that the admission of children into charity-schools ( p . 545 ) should be " limited to cases that are judiciously selected /'
and in this we are perfectly agreed , for he will admit that orphan children , in respect of whom I have made an exception , are precisely of the description whom it would be , to adopt his own language , " judiciQUS to select . "
In answer to the queries respecting the comparative advantages of hoarding-schools generally considered , compared with day-schools , your correspondent contends that U may «« well be presumed" the former have a rational claim to
su periority ; but presumption is not proof , and my opponent afterwards concedes , that ' facts ,
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and facts alone , " can determine the question . Now , Mr « Editor , I should have no objection to rest my appeal on this basis , if an insurmountable obstacle did not
present itself in respect to the possibility of acquiring the necessary information ; ior the experience of one person in any particular instance would frequently differ so widely from that of another , and
the issue of both would so generally depend upon the operation of a variety of causes , which , if they could be developed , it would hardly be practicable to enumerate ; if , for instance , the example
were taken by one party of a girl educated in ourGrey-Coat-School when in its most neglected states and by the other , of one who was brought up there when it had undergone a thorough reform , the result would so totally differ , that I am afraid the solution of the
problem must ultimately depend -upon the operation of those general principles which are at all times the same , and which it was one object of the publication in question to unfold and exemplif y *
—with what success , others must decide . Before I conclude , I must beg leave , Sir , to enter a protest against the legitimacy of the inference deduced by your worthy
correspondent , stating , that if the occasional deprivations and hardships unavoidably experienced in the parental cottage were admitted to be advantageous in exciting and exercising the latent energies of the human character , that " much
might then be said in favour of a vagrant , unsettled life : " for it would require to be previously shewn , that a general habit of indolence and sloth , ( with the oc-
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Mr $ . Cappe on Charity and Day . Schods . 673
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/13/
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