A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1823
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Credit: A new system of practical domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tracts and books on most subjects, especially on those which are connected with the improvement of the labouring orders. Of course, neither con- troversial divinity, nor political pamphlets, should be admitted. The books being short, and con- sisting chiefly of tracts, there would be no great expense in the first formation of this library ; and it might afterwards be supported by its own sub- scriptions. This measure would be productive of great advantages to the people at large ; it would gradually draw them off'from that exclusive atten- tion to politics, which so often engenders party violence; it would carry forward the public mind in the path of useful knowledge, and would be the strongest practicable remedy which could be adopted in a free country to counteract the li- centiousness of the press. Ideas often presented to the understanding will affect the heart, and influence the conduct; and books where morality assumes the gay aspect of amusement may engage young persons at home, when without those pleasing resources they might abuse intervals of leisure in the haunts of vice.