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the opposite powers of reward and punishment, holds out dishonor for every
attention a boy omitts, and honour for every exertion he can bestow.
With regard to the extending the range of inspection over
every moment of a boy's time, the sentiments of mankind might not be
altogether so unanimous. The notion indeed of most parents is I
believe, that children cannot be too much under the master's eye: and if man
were a consistent animal none who entertain that notion but should be
fonder of the principle the farther they saw it pursued. But as consitency
is of all human qualities the most rare, it need not at all surprise us,
if of those who in the present state of things are most anxious on the head of
the master's omnipresence, many were to fly back and change their note,
when they saw that point served up at once to a pitch of perfection,
so much beyond what they could ever have been accustomed to conceive.
Some there are at any rate, who before they came into so novel
a scheme, would have many scruples to get over. Doubts would be start
whether it would be advisable to apply such constant and unremitting
pressure to the tender mind, and to gain give such herculean and includible strength
to the gripe of power? — whether persons, of the cast of character and extent
of ideas that may be expected to be found in the common run of school-masters,
are likely to be fit receptacles for an authority so much exceeding
anything that has been hitherto signified by despotic? — whether the
inattention of the master may not be as necessary to the present comfort
of his pupil, in some respects, as the attention of the one may be to the future
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