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a white jacket ascends like a fast-growing mushroom , with a face as roguish beneath as that of Pack , the fairy . And here they come , Sweet-William , and Pease-blossom , and Mustard-seed , and Cobweb , and all . The pretty pageant ! sing to them , as they come , ye who sing ; and sketch them , ye who sketch ; and then , for ' neat-handed Phillis ' has done her best , * mingle , mingle , mingle' at the table ,, and blessed be the memory of Pestalozzi , Amen .
O the weary years through which I used to ask of every body that pretended to know , what Pestalozzianism was ; and none of them had the sense to tell me that it is no ism at all , at all ! I hare my answer now ; ' I feel it here , ' as the stout gentleman on the right of the chair says , when the company have drank his health with all the honours , and one cheer more . Here is one
cheer more ; and very cheering it is , for those who grbw faint and heart-sick in battling for the world ' s good against the world ' s perversity . Look at those children ; they are spurred by no rivalry , they struggle for no prizes , they are not drilled in classes—and discipline—what is their discipline ?
The sound of the child-striking rod These valleys and woods never heard , Ne ' er sighed at the threat of a task ; Nor smiled when vacation appeared / And yet they learn ; ay , learn abundantly . They know more of objects than others , of their ages , f 3 o of words . Their vocabulary
has meanings to it ; their counters represent something . And who will get on better with books , provided the books are worth getting on with ? They have the love of learning in them , and the love of their teacher , and these are two powers that draw them along , and pull away , faster than a pair of flying dragons . Moreover , and that is the best of all , with all their getting they get understanding , and with all their learning they learn wisdom .
It were a good place , this , for an adult school on the same principle . Every body here seems rational and happy . The secret of which is , that every body does what every body likes , without endeavouring to compel any body else to do the same , and say they like it too , whether or no . The consequence is , that there is more coincidence from spontaneous sympathy than ever can be produced , even in outward appearance , by arbitrary control .
Very sweet is the truce from that everlasting strife of will which is kept up in society . People feel here that 4 there is room enough in the world for thee and me , ' as Uncle Toby said when he opened the window for the blue-bottle fly to go out at . Here we open the window for otie Another ; instead of saying , * You wish to walk , but I prefer sitting , and also prefer that you should sit with me , so bide still , and be proper , and say , as you ought , that you are not uncomfortable . You want to sing , do
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422 Local Logic .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/62/
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