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1 Advantage Early Marriage
If fantastic and
imaginary pre-eminence
in point
of enjoyment are
desired them, or
rather kept put out
of their reach in respect of real
and indispensble
ones are they are will
be not only upon a
par with the bulk
of mankind but
above it. Yes:
the highest of all
enjoyments is that
which will be more
within their reach
than at in this country
it has ever been
within the reach of
any set class of men
from the lowest up
to the very highest.
The difference between
cheap meat and
dear meat is beneath
estimation:
but the difference
betwixt wife and
no wife, betwixt
husband and no
husband is above
it all estimate. Yes:
tho at the call of
nature, at the first
call of nature which
a prudent the lacking
interests of health
are not forbid to
listen to, will these
outcasts of society
be every one of them
happy in the company
of a partnercompanion of
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of the other six,
while the sons and
daughter of kings
either committdisgrace
themselves by clandestine
and unsafe
amours,
and the daughters
of Kings pine everlasting in
hopeless celibacy.
What is the great
which to marriage population?
what is
the cause that
in a country like
this, the population
is not ten
times as great as
it is at present?
It is the difficulty
of finding the little
capital which according
to the class
of persons a man belongs to in question
is looked upon
as necessary to set
up a married couple
in the world.
It is the difficulty
of obtaining a
moral certainty assurance
of a sufficient
maintenance for
the children the offspring of the
marriage.
But according to
this plan, this
difficulty will
have been already
conquered. If the parents
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parents while
children could
be brought up
without ultimateexpence,
so may their
children, and their
children's children
without end.
Shall this new
race generation of
children be taken
from the parents
or left under their
care: for the parents
being still
under age, will
continue notwithstanding the
less for their marriage
under the
care and government
of the preserver
and improver
of their
existence.
A nice question
this: and one
that has been
often come on
the carpet, in
the instance of
Charity Schools
To this question
however it
is not necessary
to give any peremptory
decision: neither
course and
be exclusively adopted:
it will be
one amongst so many
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many fit subjects
for experiment.
In one
way of deciding
it at least there
can be no great
harm: refer it
to the parents.
Take the child
where both parents
concurr in giving
it up: leave it,
where either of
them is
to part with it.
But why not
take in most
instances a middle
course? Let
the child be at
its studies and at
its work apart
from its parents
on the days of work:
its company will
be but the more
valuable as amusement
to them
on the periodical & general
day of rest.
Even here too
the condition of
this humble class
will have the advantage
of many
of the most elevated
class: who in
order to make their
children partakers
of that mode of
education which
is by many regarded
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regarded as the most
eligible, are obliged
to debar deny themselves
from the right of
their children for
a period of years which
in general has fewer
moments intervals of indulgence
than may
be allowed here.
1. Adoptive InfantsChildren
2. Apprentices.
3. Paupers taken
by contract
4. Pupils unbound
5. Pay Apprentices
upon the footing of
adoptive infants children
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This no Utopia.
In Utopia effects,
are represented as
produced where no
adequate causes
have been assigned represented
along with: happiness
is represented
as existing without
adequate means of
happiness: virtue
without adequate
motives and manners
to virtue. Passions
are represented
as regulated as
subsisting on a regulated state
of regulation, without
any thing to regulate
them The selfish
affections are represented
as in a state
of uniform subordination
to the social:
the anti-social affections
as annihilated,
or as more
having him brought
into existence.
In this plan, happiness
is provided for
not by production
an unfounded assumption
or confident
prediction, but
by the care that is
taken to bring together
the means instruments of
happiness, and to
exclude the efficient
causes of unhappiness.
The interest of
him upon every
thing depends is identified
with his duty.
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Medical Instruction
fit for universal
use
1. Prophylatics in
general — made against
drunckennness over eating &c
2. In the Curative
branch, 1. general
caution against vulgar
errors 2 particular
instructions
adapted to the most
ordinary and simple
cases: such as in
particular are those
that call for surgery
wounds, pains bruizes for
example: 3. instructions
concerning the
applying for professional
advice in cases
of difficulty or danger
4. Quack-Medicines
5 Things generally
wholesome and unwholesome.
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Lenders to have
rights of nomination
in proportion
to money lent
Many things common
in point of
treatment between the
Nursery — children
and convicts: viz:
1. Perpetual inspection
2. Simple diet
3. Seclusion
4. Simple cloathing
5. Work
6. Time filled up
with profitable occupation.
The apparent incongruity
is altogether
done away
by one circumstance,
that of habit
The Nursery Children
never experienced
any other
mode of living: it
will be attended with
none of that hardship
that results from
comparison with different
experience:
and as to absolute positive
hardship it is altogether
equally out of the
question in either
case
No ignominy — but
hope of rising in the
world.
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