Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . equences of a wealthy institution for the receptioaof foundlings; and if the evil which occasioned its existence were again pre-valent on the same scale, which happily is not the case, the enormous blunderwould not be committed of which it is a most striking monument. Taking asdata the history of the foundling hospital, we may look ba
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . equences of a wealthy institution for the receptioaof foundlings; and if the evil which occasioned its existence were again pre-valent on the same scale, which happily is not the case, the enormous blunderwould not be committed of which it is a most striking monument. Taking asdata the history of the foundling hospital, we may look back upon the periodsince its origin as marked by great improvements both moral and intellectual. It is interesting to observe the means by which a single individual can beinstrumental in doing good to his fellow-creatures. In the first place, it is true,there must be a disposition to acknowledge the general existence of an evil,before any hope can be entertained of providing a remedy. It often, however,falls to the lot of one man to labor in the demonstrations ©f this fact. He isso endowed as to perceive it with great acutaness and under various formsThen others begin fc> see the object ia the same light, and>at length*. && per THOMAS Captain Thomas Coram. ceptions of the mass being opened, a general sympathy is felt with his viewswhich by means of co-operation, effects with ease what would otherwise beunattainable. No individual whose faculties are of one common level cansucceed in the work of arousing a whole community. One feeling must bepredominant, and it is to its strength that success is to be attributed, for itoverlooks obstacles and gives energy to the whole of a mans faculties. InCaptain Coram, as in St. Vincent de Paul, the feeling which sustained himwas benevolence of the purest and most disinterested character. Added tothis, his manner was strikingly indicative of the honesty and genuineness ofhis motives, and at once procured confidence. When this wa
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