IN

EDUCATION,

AS IT RESPECTS THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES

OF THE

COMMUNITY,

CONTAINING,

AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT PARTICULARS,

An Account of the Institution for the Education of
ONE THOUSAND POOR CHILDREN,

BOROUGH ROAD, SOUTHWARK;

AND OF THE NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ON WHICH IT IS
CONDUCTED.

BY JOSEPH LANCASTER.

"All nations, indeed, of which we have any account, in be-
coming rich, have become profligate; a torrent of depraved morality has,
in every opulent state, borne down with irresistible violence those mounds
and fences, by which the wisdom of legislators attempted to protect chastity,
sobriety, and virtue. If any check can be given to the corruption of a state
increasing in riches and declining in morals, it must be given, not by laws
enacted to alter the inveterate habits of men, but by education adapted
to form the hearts of children to a proper sense of moral and religious
excellence."-Bishop of Landaff's Charge, 1788.

THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

London:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY DARTON AND HARVEY, GRACECHURCH-
STREET; SOLD ALSO BY W. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY.

1805.

ΤΟ

JOHN DUKE OF BEDFORD,

AND

JOHN LORD SOMERVILLE,

In Testimony of the cheerful, generous, and important Assistance they have repeatedly given to the Institution and System of Instruction described in the ensuing Pages, this Publication is

Most respectfully inscribed,

By their obliged and grateful Friend,

JOSEPH LANCASTER.

FREE SCHOOL, BOROUGH ROAD,

8th of 7th MONTH, 1805.