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not be the constructing a set of machines under the similitude of men?
To give a satisfactory answer to these queries, which
are might fine, but do not any of them come home to the point, it
would be necessary to at once to the end of education — Would
happiness be most likely to be increased or diminished by this discipline?
Call them Soldiers, call them Monks, call them machines, so they
were but happy ones, I should not care. Wars and storms are best
to read of: but peace and calms are better to enjoy. Don't be frightened
now, my dear xxxxx , and think that I am going to entertain
you with a course of Moral Philosophy, or even with a system of
education. Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to
talk about: so you may unknit your brow, for I shall say no more
about the matter. One thing only I will add, which is, that whoever
sets up an Inspection-school upon the tip top of the principle, had
need to be very sure of the Master: for the boy's body is not more mind will be the
child of his father's, than his mind will be of the master's mind: the master's, as much as his body is of his father's with
no other difference than what there is between command on one side and
subjection on the other.
Some of these fine queries which I have been treating you
with, and finer still, Rousseau would have entertained us with; nor
do I imagine he would have put his Omnibus into an Inspection-house
but I think he would have been glad of such a school for his Sophia.
Addison, the grave and moral Addison, in his Spectator
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