ABSTRACT
Habits of industry and perseverance are undoubtedly of so much importance, that they cannot be too early or too strongly inculcated. These, however, may be, in general, acquired at home, by the children of the labouring classes, full as effectually, and at less cost and less risque, than in working schools, or in manufactories. The objections which have been repeatedly urged against parochial work-houses, and houses of industry; that, by removing the young from their parents, they destroy all domestic connections; that, under the lash of a talk-matter, the freedom of the British spirit is broken; and that, reared in crowds, the rising generation lose the spring of health in contagion and restraint; seem to be no less applicable to those places, in which great numbers of boys and girls are thronged together, at the spinning wheels, the loom, or any other mechanical employment.
