ABSTRACT
We have met today for the purpose of opening this Institution; and it is the author intention to explain to the reader the objects for which it has been founded. These objects are most important. The first relates to the immediate comfort and benefit of all the inhabitants of this village. The second relates to the welfare and advantage of the neighbourhood. The third relates to extensive ameliorations throughout the British dominions. The last relates to the gradual improvement of every nation in the world. The chapter explains how this Institution is to contribute towards producing these effects. For this purpose the Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving the reader children at an early age, as soon almost as they can walk. One of the apartments will also be occasionally appropriated for the purpose of giving useful instruction to the older classes of the inhabitants.
