Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN. schools of this kind which I visited; namely, of those at Edinburgh, called hospitals, founded by George Heriot, George Watson and John Watson, with a notice of Cauvin's Hospital, a description of the Blue-coat School at Liverpool, with a notice of that at Oldham near Manchester, a description of the London Orphan Asylum at Clapton, and of Christ's Hospital or the Blue-coat School of London. In these, and in general in other cases where a formal division of the subject may be necessary, it will be treated under the heads of, 1st. The history, buildings, general government, and domestic economy of the institution. 2d. The reception and dismission of the pupils. 3d. The educational arrangements, considered under the divisions of intellectual, moral, and physical education. There are in Edinburgh seven education hospitals, six of which admit other inmates than orphans. The effect of thus receiving children whose parents are alive, of maintaining, educating, and providing situations for them, is supposed by many intelligent men to be injurious to the tone of social morals, and to remove a stimulus to honourable exertion on the part of parents, by providing for their children if they surrender them, or, if the parents are disposed to struggle for their education at home, by placing them in unfavourable competition with others so educated. Such an opinion might be brought to the test of numbers, but I was not able to find that this had been done by any who entertained it. The grounds of the argument, even if admitted to their full extent, do not, however, affect the establishment of orphan-charities, and a provision for the fatherless seems to have been the governing motive in the original foundation of at least three out of the fi...