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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Mr . Brougham ' s Description of the Establishment for promoting Learning and Industry at Hofwyl , in Switzerland . - » r [ The following * interesting relation was given by Henry Brougbam , Esq . as Chairman of the Committee of the House of
Commons , on the Education of the Lower Orders , and is published with the Report which we inserted pp . 652—654 . Ed . ] CONSIDER that I shall render I an acceptable service , and assist the inquiries of this Committee , by
giving an account of a very important institution , connected intimately with the instruction and improvement of the poor , at Hofwyl , near Berne , in Switzerland , under the management of the owner of that estate , Mr .
Fellenberg , a patrician of that canton . Happening to be in Switzerland in the autumn of 1816 , I went to Berne , for the purpose of- visiting Mr . Fellenberg ' s institution , which is situated in a pleasant country , about four miles from the town . I was received by
him with great courtesy 5 he shewed me himself every part of his establishment , and appeared anxious to have the whole details of its management investigated . My intention was to return , and pass a few weeks there
for the purpose of acquiring further information respecting the system , and more especially the extraordinary economy which prevails , and which enables Mr . Fellenberg to effect so much with such slender means . This
can only be learnt by a daily examination of minute particulars : to facilitate which , Mr . Fellenberg was kind enough to offer me the use of a chateau , in the neighbourhood of his own residence ; but the state of the
weather for many weeks , and of my own health , made it desirable that I should proceed to Italy , without accomplishing my purpose- I cannot , however , avoid > trongly recommending a residence at HofwvK to amr one
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who may interest himself in these important inquiries , and 1 can venture to engage for Mr . Fellenberg , that he will give such a one , if jfroperly recommended , the same facilities which lie so readily offered to me . Several tracts have been written
upon the subject ; the best of which is entitled , " Rapport fait a S . M . I . L' Empereur Alexandra , sur V Etablissement de Hofwyl . " It purports to be the work of the Count of Capo D' Istria , but was in fact written
entirely by Mr . C . Pictet , of Geneva , who has paid great attention to the plans of Mr . Fellenberg , and examined them carefully in different stages of their progress . The work of Mr . Rengger deserves also to be consulted ; and Mr . Fellenberg himself has pub * lished some tracts in German . All
these publications are to be had at the bookseller Paschoud ' s , in Geneva and Paris . The groundwork of the establishment is a farm of moderate extent , from 210 to 220 posen , answering nearly to our English acres , which
Mr . Fellenberg cultivates himself with great assiduity and success . Upon this he has ingrafted the other branches of his institution , which consists of a seminary for the education and moral
and religious improvement of the poor y an academy for the richer classesof society 3 an agricultural institution for a limited number of pupils ; and a manufactory of agricultural implements . >
The academy consists of fifty or sixty pupils , who are taught every branch of useful learning , from Latin and Greek ( which last they are peculiarly well-grounded in , from the plan adopted of beginning with it ) , to the
higher branches of the mathematics and of physical science . These pupils are chiefly of patrician families . When I was there , I found seven or eight German princes among them , besides several sons of German nobles ; and
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No . CLVL ] DECEMBER , 1818 . [ Vol . XIII . .... . . ... - - - , - -- ¦ nt 1 m ¦¦ «~> + m i ¦ - j " 1
Miscellaneous Communications.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/1/
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