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concert I what , for the amusement of the labourers in . a cotton factory ! Yes 5 it wa 3 truly concert night , and they are blessed with one once a week . How drivelling dost thou look , world in which I have been accustomed to
Kve , when placed in comparison with this community ! Here , the labourer of two shillings per week can go to concert every week , and the fastidious souls of a town like Leeds , wallowing in unenjoyed wealth , can scarcely raise
one , once in half a year . But here too they are taught music , and , of consequence , enjoy the captivating sweets of sound . The band was military , although they have violins , and consisted of two horns , one trumpet , three bassoons , one serpent , live clarionets , flutes and fifes . * *
" Whilst standing in the buildings appropriated for the schools and amusements , with the magical sight before me , ( for at this place almost all is wonderous and astonishing , ) and contemplating the enormous expense
which must have been incurred to provide these buildings , teachers and every other thing to move this comparatively vast machine , produced from the fluctuating sources of manufacture , —my ideas were enchanted with anticipation in the prospect of that pleasure and
profit which might be produced from the combined powers of a number of villages united in a community of interests . Who can say with how little labour their wants might be supplied :
and who can tell the happiness which would accrue from the want of temptation to covetousness , and all the other deadly evils attendant upon man suffering from want ? The temptation to do evil would be removed , and
brotherly love be the tooud of union . No one wifck half the senses of a man , but what ^ jan see this , in walking through the precincts of New Lanark . There Is not a nobleman in England that is
givkag so much comfort to so many human beings as Mr . Owen is , and the very proudest of them would be astonished and confounded were they to spend one evening m this place . " In the education of the children .
the tiling that is most remarkable , is the general spirit o £ kindness and affection which is shewn towards them . In this they appear like one
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well-regnilated family united t ogether by ties of the closest affection . We heard no quarrels from the youngest to the eldest , and so strongly imp ressed are they with the conviction that their interest and duty are the same
and that to be happy themselves it is necessary to make those happy jjy whom they they are surrounded ; that they had no strife but in offices of kindness . With such dispositions , and with their young minds well stored with useful knowledge , it appeared to
us that if it should be their destiny to go out to service or to be apprenticed , the families in which they were fixed would find them an acquisition instead of a burthen ; and we could not avoid
the expression of a wish , that the orphan children in our workhouses had the same advantage of moral and religious instruction , and the same prospect of being happy themselves and useful to the families in which
they may be placed . On the return of the deputation to Leeds , the committee of the Leeds Workhouse entered fully into the desires of the delegates upon this subject , and a new code of regulations
was adopted for the management of the children , which , I am happy to say , has already proved of essential service to these sons and daughters of poverty ; which pode I subjoin to these remarks .
JOHN CAWOOD . Education and Employment of the Children . 1 . That the boys and girls he kept in a state of separation from the adult part of the inhabitants of the House .
2 . That a separate room be devoted solely to the girls , and fitted up for their school-room and sitting-room-3 . Every day in the week ( Sunday excepted ) the girls shall be emp loyed ia learning to read aud write , ftp 10 half-past eight o ' clock in the morning till twelve o ' clock at noon , under the
superintendence and instruction of » proper master ; that from twelve to half-past one they shall have dinner , with the remaining" time for rccrea ^ tion . And that from half-past one to six o ' clock , they shall be emp loyed m knitting , sewing , &c ., under the superintendence and instruction w *
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296 Mr . Cawaod on Mr . Owen ' s Establishment .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/40/
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