Chapter 4

REMEDY FOR EXISTING EVILS.

_Means long in operation important--Prisons awfully corrupting--Deplorable condition of those released from jail--Education of the infant poor--Its beneficial results--Cases of inviolable honesty--Appeal of Mr. Serjeant Bosanquet--The infant school an asylum from accident and a prevention of various evils--Obstacles in the way of married persons obtaining employment--Arguments for the plan of infant training--Prevalence of profane swearing--The example often shewn by parents--Anecdote in illustration--Parents ill used by their young children--Christian-like wish of George III.--Education for poor children still objected to--Folly of such objection illustrated--Lectures on the subject of infant training_