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Letter XXI. Schools.
passed the Rubicon: you may even clap them up in an Inspection-house,
and then you may make of them what you please. You need
never grudge the parents a peep behind the curtain in the Masters
Lodge. There, as often as they had a mind, they might see their children
thriving and learning, if that would satisfy them, without interrupting
business or counteracting discipline. Improving upon
Psammiticus's experiment you might keep up a sixteen or eighteen
years separation between the male and female part of your young
subjects: and at the end of that period see what the language of love
would be, when Father Francis's Ganders were turned in into to
Father Francis's Geese.
I know who would have been delighted to set up an
Inspection-School, if it were only for the experiment's sake, and
that is Helveticus: at least if he had been steady to his principles,
which he was said to be. For by that contrivance, and by that alone,
he might have been enabled to give an experimental proof of the
truth of his position (supposing it to be true) that any body may be
taught anything: one person as well as another. It would have been
his fault, if what he requires as a condition, viz: that the
subjects of the experiment be placed in circumstances exactly similar,
were not fulfilled.
A rare field for discovery in metaphysics: a science
which, now for the first time, may be put to the test of experiment, like
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