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Letter XXI. Schools.
he were to have been Head-Master: and then he would have had no other
schools but those. His antogonist, Dr Priestly, would I imagine, be
altogether as averse to it: unless perhaps for experiment's sake, upon
a small scale, just enough to furnish an appendix to Hartley upon
man.
You have a controversy, I find, in England about Sunday
Schools. Schools upon the extremity of the inspection-principle of
the inspection would, I am apt to think, find more advocates among
the patrons, than among the , of that measure.
We are told, somewhere or other, of a King of Egypt
(Psammitichus, I think is his name) who thinking to rediscover the
lost original of any language, contrived to breed up two children in
a seqestered spot, secluded, from the hour of their birth, from all converse
with the rest of human kind. No great matters were, I believe, collected
from this experiment. An inspection house, to which a set of children
had been consigned from their birth, might afford experiments
enough that would be rather more interesting. What say you to a
Foundling Hospital upon this principle? Would xxxxx's
manes give you leave to let your present school and build another upon
this ground? If I do not misrecollect, your brethren in that trust
have gone so far as to make a point, where it can be effected, of taking
the children out of the hands of their parents as much as possible,
and even, if possible, altogether. If you have gone thus far, you have passed
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