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-ion and alone: a circumstance of no mean importance in many a parent's eye.
In the Royal Military school at Paris, the bed chambers
(if my Brother's memory, , does not deceive him)
form two ranges on the two sides of a long room: the inhabitants being
separated from one another by partitions, but exposed alike to the view of a
Master at his walks, by a kind of grated window in each door. This plan
of construction struck him, he tells me, a good deal, as he walked over that
establishment (about a dozen years ago was it not?) with you: and possibly
in that walk the foundation was laid for his Inspection-house. If he there
borrowed his idea, I hope he has not repaid it without interest. You will
confess some difference, in point of faculty facility, betwixt a state of incessant
walking and a state of rest: and in point of compleatness of inspection, between
two or three hundred persons one after another, and seeing them at once.
In stating what this principle will do in promoting the
progress of instruction in every line, a word or two will be thought sufficient
to state what it will not do. It does give every degree of efficacy which can
be given to the influence of punishment and restraint. But it does nothing
towards correcting the oppressive influence of punishment and restraint, by
the enlivening and invigorating influence of reward. That noblest and
brightest engine of discipline can by no other means be put to constant
use in schools, than by the practice which, at Westminster, you know,
goes by the name of challenging: an institution, which paying merit
in its fittest and most inexhaustible coin, and even uniting in one impulse the
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