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yers , police officers , and executioners ; we haVe instructors and professors of every description , who direct the fr £ e workings of intellect Nor does this institution seem , like that of Mr . Owen , to be merely a preservative against the evils of our artificial society ,
for the production mainly of the first necessaries of life . It seems rather formed for the generation of faculties than for directing their application . We were reminded more than once of the remark of a German transcendental physician , ( Kilian the Brunonian , ) who in one of his prefaces gravely asserts , * The science of medicine was not discovered to cure diseases , but diseases
exist in order that the science of medicine might arise . ' A great variety of curious dissertation is interspersed on the mechanic arts ; even the processes of spinning and weaving are minutely described ; anatomy , and the substitution of Waxen models are discussed . And here we find a remarkable anticipation of that atrocious crime ( Burking ) which subsequently disgraced out country , and to which a great name has been unhappily appropriated .
With the pedagogical institution is connected art emigration society , but this seems , in part at least , to be an expedient for colonizing less the barren earth with men than barren society with instructed and intellectual beings . From the purely pedagogic part ive will mention one single incident as a specimen of the fanciful expedients resorted to by our author . AVilhelm remarks , that all the pupils , when their preceptors pass them , lfeave their
employments , and assume different positions and gestures , according to their age . The youngest cross each his arms on his breast , and look with a smile towards the sky ; the next class , with hands folded behind , contemplate the earth ; while the seniors stand in a row and look forward . These different gesticulations are imposed as a duty , in order to impress on their susceptible minds the
threefold reverence ( ehrfurchf ) which , when combined together , attune the mind to \ irtue . These are successively explained to mean the reverence man ought to feel towards his superiors , his inferiors ,, and his equals . The fitness of each position and gesture to express and inspire the sentiment , we leave to the discernment of our readers . Goethe , however , has not confessed that after all
this thought is exemplified in every infant's prayer . Indeed , what else were the sacrificial ceremonies of all antiquity , sacred and pagan ? Among these mountains , Wilhelm finds one of his old companions , Jarno ; he is the chief instructor in geology and the sciences . In this same retreat we have also , where we should little expect it , a discussion of the evil and good of machinery , which , jn fact , forces into emigration the till then thriving community ^ and which emigration is the last incident of the romance . Of the new characters , there is one which is kept in the background , like a superior being , and as becomes her sacred name
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190 Goethe ' s Wottn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/46/
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