This System Of Encouragement Proves Serviceable As

I Was Induced To Establish Several Orders Of Merit, From Conviction That Emulation, Well Directed, Becomes A Useful Servant; And, That The Latent Genius Of Some Youth Is More Easily Brought Into Action This Way, Than By The More Sordid Gratification Of Self-interest.

The Rich Possess Ample Means To Realize Any Theory They May Chuse To Adopt In The Education Of Their Children, Regardless Of The Cost; But It Is Not So With Him Whose Subsistence Is Derived From Industry.

This System Of Encouragement Proves Serviceable As A Preventive Of Punishment, The Attainment Of The Tickets Being A Reward, The Forfeiture Of Them The Reverse; And, As Such, Boys Seem Often More Affected By Their Loss Than By Coercion.

Many Thousands Of Youth Have Been Deprived Of The Benefit Of Education Thereby, Their Morals Ruined, And Talents Irretrievably Lost To Society, For Want Of Cultivation: While Two Parties Have Been Idly Contending Who Should Bestow It.

We Daily Witness The Beneficial Effect Produced To The Community By The Institution Of Premiums, Held Out To Encourage The Inventions Of Ingenious Mechanics.