Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-04-30

But it is in Education that tie glories OF
effort shine out in their bright
est us,re. What is especially wanted, in
regard to the instruction of the People is,
that It should be nnicersaI and integral,
that 1t should embrace every member OF
tn: hannah race, and likewise every faculty
OF every such member, in due relation and
harmony with other faculties. These OBJ
]ccts, however, are quite unnttainable, I'M
der existing arrangements, where q large
portion Of the children have no educational
provision made for them, or are unable,
on account Of the need Of laboring for sub
sis;ence, 10 avail themselves Of such pro-
visions as are made while the education
which they receive, even under the most
favorable circumstances, is partial, ele-
men,ary, incomplete and otter erroneous.
But in a well-regulated Association, it
would be otherwise. Every child 10 the
community would be progressively educa-
ted, from the earliest periods of infancy
TO The latest moments Of its life; educated
by masters, each Of whom would be abun-
dainty competent in his particular depart
"SHtt oho Oy asChiO0S WultH WOulu COhi-
bine practical instruction in different
branches of useful industry, with the high
est Development of scientific principles
and results. By the nice and beautiful
distribution. which an organization OF
groups and series allows, there would be
always numerous and highly intelligent
body, composed both If men and women,
devoted from capacity and love, TO the in
dustrial training Of children, to the best
methods of secular teaching and moral dis
cipline, and to the continuous application
of the positive precep,s of Religion No
collegiate institution in this country
scarcely one among the old and richly en-
dowsd institutions Of Europe, could equal
the Seminary which the poorest Associa-
ton might easily establish-either in
the amount or variety OF knowledge
which would be communicated. All
the facilities of Improvements 10 be de-
rived from books, from museums, from col
lections of art, and from experimental phlo-
sophy, would be heightened by the opportu-
mites afforded for practical applications, in
the fields and workshops, so feebly furnish
ed in agricultural and manual labor schools.
AHS fNiy oihuS-hitAitS VI GHtl0uOOd uSu'
readily be converted into sources of instruc-
ton; and thus body and mind would be de-
ycloped together, the most vigorous physical
health con ributing TO the vigor and growth
Of the mind. Surely, if there were no other
advantages TO be derived from organic con-
centration, the advantages of it, as a mere
educational establishment, would suffice 10
recommend it to benevolent and christian
men.
In any Of the departments of Industrial
Activity, then, scientific combination is of
very great Importance; but who shall essay
to estimate that importance, when this COM
binatlon includes, not single element only,
but all the elements of social life? when all
tho rays of life shall be concentr ated into
che grand collective whole, in one great CEN
trail focus?
What all idea must these brief suggestions
furnish of the efficiency of a thoroughly or
ganlzed Association! When twelve or fif-
teen. hudred persons, or three or four hundred
families are concentrated in our unitary man
sion or domestic club, or rather where one
series OF domestic clubs of different degrees
OF rank and fortune, are united in one gene
Ill administration; where several miles OF
territory are cultivated as joint stock proper
| ty, according to the best practical and scien-
tic knowledge; where manufacturing, and
art and science are pursued in their various
relationships, by hundreds of yotaries practi-
cling and study NJ IN concert; where useless
competition and retail complication in COM
mercial lniercou sc would be eradicated by
wholesale SIS. EN- Of commercial credit
and economy, and where consequently every
thing would be held at wholesale prices, and
Of unadulierated quality; where moral and
religious agency would always be at hand to
discipline the mass aud neutralize the infu-
ence ofindvidual dcpravty; where individ-
ual cleanliness and industry would be guar
aneed by general necessity, aud where midi
viduai license would be kept in awe by the
perpetual presence of public and collective
dc csncy; there would be true fraternal,c chris
IL association, and society approaching its
natural state of moral equilibrium and har-
mony.
Conclusion in our merit