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tolerably large scale are provided, one easily sees
how considerable these expenses are, and in what
proportion they annually increase with the increase
of prisoners.
This picture, which represents faithfully a state
of things as melancholy for humanity as it is
dangerous for the peace and comfort of society, shows
decidedly how important it is to endeavour, by
means of penetrating and extensive measures, to
root out the evil, before it has had time to carry
its destructive contagion into the vital principle of
the organization of the state. I have already in
the first chapter, page 27, pointed out those
subjects which ought, in such a case, to be brought
under consideration. The necessity of a more
general enlightenment occupies the first place, and
the surest means of promoting this object of public
concern, is the establishment of national schools,
where not merely a certain measure of sound
knowledge is obtained, but a deep and truly religious
feeling; for without this harmonious development
of the understanding and of feeling, the learning
of the catechism soon becomes an empty and a
meaningless act of the memory, and knowledge a
dangerous instrument for the advancement of
corrupt purposes. Education, which forms the most
efficacious counterpoise against prejudice and
distrust, is one great condition for the possibility of
a more general introduction of a rational
agriculture. It will also have great influence on the
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