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" Thousands pass away as nature gave them birth , in the corruption of sensual gratification , and they seek no more . " Tens of thousands are overwhelmed by the burdens of craft and of trade ; by the weight of the hammer , the ell , or the crown , and they seek no more .
" But I know a man who did seek more ; the joy of simplicity dwelt in his heart , and he had faith in mankind such as few men have ; his soul was made for friendship , love was his element , and fidelity his strongest tie . ** But he was not made bv this world , nor for it ; and wherever he was placed in it he was found unfit .
" And the world that found him thus , asked not whether it was his fault or the fault of another ; but it bruised him with an iron hammer , as the bricklayers break an old brick to fill up crevices . " But though bruised , he yet trusted in mankind more than in himself , and he proposed to himself a great purpose , which to attain he suffered agonies , and learned lessons such as few men had learned before him .
* ' He could not , nor would he become generall y useful ; but for his purpose he was more useful than most men are for theirs , and he expected justice at the hands of mankind , whom he still loved with an innocent love . But he found none . Those that erected themselves into his judges , without further examination , confirmed the former sentence , that he was generally and absolutely useless . 44 This was the grain of sand which decided the doubtful balance of his wretched destinies .
"He is no more ; thou wouldst know him no more ; all that remains of him are the decayed remnants of his destroyed existence . "He fell as a fruit falls before it is ripe , whose blossom has been nipped by the northern gale , or whose corn is eaten out by the gnawing worm .
" Stranger that passest by , refuse not a tear of sympathy ; even in falling this fruit turned itself towards the stem , on the branches ot which it lingered through the summer , and it whispered to the tree ' even in my death I will nourish thy roots . ' " Stranger that passest by , spare the perishing fruit , and allow the dust of its corruption to nourish the roots of the tree on whose branches it lived , sickened , and died . "—Written by Peslalozzi ajlcr his failure
at Neuhoff .
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The Educational Institutions of Germany . 37
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/37/
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