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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27366	Proposals for raising a colledge of industry of all useful trades and husbandry with a profit for the rich, a plentiful living for the poor and a good education for youth : which will be advantage to the government by the increase of the people and their riches.	Bellers, John, 1654-1725.	1695 (1695)	Wing B1829; ESTC R30221	15,388	29

will be reduced to this single Point of doing only an easie Days Work and then instead of every bodies endeavouring to get from him every body is working for him and they will have more Conveniences in the Colledge than out 3. In the common way of Living and Trade Men their Wives or Children often lose half what they get either by Dear Bargains Bad Debts or Law-suits of which there will be neither in the Colledge and if the Earth gives but forth its Fruit and the Workmen do but their parts they will have plenty whereas often now the Husbandman and Mechanicks both are ruined tho' the first have a great Crop and the second industriously maketh much Manufacture Money and not Labour being made the Standard the Husbandman paying the same Rent and Wages as when his Crop yielded double the Price it being no better with the Mechanicks where it 's not who wants his Commodity but who can give him Money for it will keep him and so often he must take half the Value in Money another could give him in Labour that hath no Money 4. That as they grow in Years in the Colledge they shall abate an Hour in a Day of their Work and when come to Sixty Years old if Merit prefer them not sooner they shall be made Overseers which for ease and pleasant Life will equal what the Hoards of a private Purse can give and excel in so much as it hath less care and danger of Losing 5. And if we may compute by the Parable of the Sower that one third of the People lose Heaven by the Cares of this Life may not a Collegiate way of Living be the occasion of saving Many by preventing them Cares and for Bodily Labour it 's a Primitive Constitution of God it should Earn its Bread in the sweat of its Brows Labour being as proper for the Bodies Health as eating is for its living for what pains a Man saves by Ease he will find in Disease and less Labour will provide for a Man in the Colledge than out 6. The Regular Life in the Colledge with abatement of Worldly Cares with an easie honest Labour and Religious Instructions may make it a Nursery and School of Vertue 7. The Poor thus in a Colledge will be a Community something like the Example of Primitive Christianity that lived in common and the Power that did attend it bespeaks its excellency but considering the Constitution of Mankind that have Estates but it 's not so with the Poor it was none of the least Miracles of that Age and so abated as other Miracles did 8. A Colledge thus Constituted cannot so easily be undone whatever Changes comes except the People are destroyed for if plundred Twelve Months time will recruit again like the Grass new Mowed the next Year supplies again Labour bringing a supply as the Ground doth and when together they assist one another but when scattered are useless if not preying upon one another A few Rules for Governing the Colledge Workmen 1. ALL the Colledges and Hospitals of England and Holland should be visited to see what Rules and Orders they have for Governing their Societies that may be useful in this Colledge 2. It should be called a Colledge rather than a Work-house because a Name more grateful and besides all sorts of useful Learning may be taught there 3. The Members of the Colledge may be distinguished in Caps and Cloaths as the Master-workmen from the Prentices and Women from Girls 4. A certain number of the Boys and Girls should be appointed weekly to wait at Table upon the Men and Women at Meals that as much as may be the Men and Women may live better in the Colledge than any where else 5. There should be several Wards 1. For Young Men and Boys 2. For Young Women and Girls 3. For Married Persons 4. For Sick and Lame 6. As the Men and Women have distinct Lodging so they should have distinct Work-rooms and as much as the Imploys would admit of it the Men should be in one Room and the Women in another that their Governours may the better look over them 7. The Men shall be Prentices till Twenty Four Years old and Women till Twenty One Years or Marry as the Law allows and then shall have liberty to go out of the Colledge or stay in and Marry if they will Of the Education of Children and Teaching them Languages 1. THo' Rules as well as Words must be understood to make a compleat Scholar yet considering Words lies in the Memory and Rules in the Understanding and that Children have first Memory before Understanding by that Nature shews Memory is to be first used and that in the Learning of Language Words should be first Learned and afterwards Rules to put them together Children learning the Words of their Mother Tongue and then Sentences but to understand what Rules their Language hath requires a ripeness of Judgment and the putting of Rules upon Children before cripples their Understandings when Boys of Twelve Years old are as long again at School learning a Language by Rules as a Child of Three Years old without Rules And therefore I think Vocabulary and Dictionary is to be learnt before Accidence and Grammar and Childrens reading and discoursing one to another gives a deeper Impression than reading to themselves we remembring a Man's Voice longer than his Face a sound upon the Ear penetrating the Spirits more than a silent Seeing where the Spirits are not affected with the Subject as few Children are with their Books 2. Four Hours in a Morning and Four in an Afternoon is too long to tye a Child to his Book it 's hard for a Man to be tyed upon one Subject so long much more is it toilsome to Children whose Natures are weak and love change it hurts their Spirits makes them out of love with their Books and loseth much time the Children might be imployed to more profit a Labouring-man will hold longer at Work than a Thinking-man in his Study Men will grow strong with working but not with thinking who have stronger Bodies than Labourers and weaker Bodies than great Students Labour adds Oyl to the Lamp of Life when Thinking Inflames it 3. Where People of Estates are willing to qualifie their Children with what Learning they will take or where others appear of ready and pregnant Understandings it may be worth incouraging to the furthest degree yet beyond Reading and Writing further Learning will not be so useful to most among us as among other People whilst many of them expect to get their Living by it as Priests Lawyers c. 4. Tho' Learning may be useful yet a Vertuous Education tends more to Happiness here and hereafter and what is a great Impediment in the common Education is the letting Children imploy themselves without Directions which is a loss several ways First To their Bodies and present Condition Secondly To their Spirits and future Being for at Four or Five Years old

besides Reading Boys and Girls might be taught to Knit and Spin and bigger Boys Turning c. and beginning Young they would make the best Artists and being upon Business tho' slight it improves their Reasons by sensible Demonstration which is sooner learn'd than any Rational Demonstration without it as a Child at three years old by Feeling knows Fire will burn much better than one of Thirteen from the most Rational Discourse without Feeling whereas a childish silly Employ leaves their Minds silly And the Will being the greatest Enemy a Man hath when it is not subject to the Will of God How valuable is it then for a Child's Will to be kept under anothers Direction than its own It will be the less difficult to submit it to the Will of God when grown a Man especially if seasoned with Religious Lessons of Scriptures c. Thus the hand employ'd brings Profit the Reason used in it makes wise and the Will subdued makes them good For tho' Men should be guided more by Reason than Sense yet Children are guided more by Sense than Reason and therefore must be hedged from Evil more by wise Management than Discourse as we see Colts are tamed more by it than words All which considered there is less wonder any prove Ill but that any prove good from such an Idle Education as the common Breeding of Children where the Mind is at leisure to receive all the evil Impressions their several Ages are capable of A good Education tho' with but a little Estate makes a happier Man than a great Estate without it for the first not only supports the Name of his Family but raiseth a Name and Family to himself whereas the latter many times the more Rich the more VVicked and only pleased when at once he is making an End of Body Estate and Name together Such Parents as have also a sence of a Future State and the Happiness or Unhappiness their Children are capable of will think there is no comparison between a Good and an Evil Education And I think such a Colledge-Education under good Rules beyond any Private one having several Advantages the Private will want 1. There will be all sorts of Employs and Tools for every Age and Capacity to be employed with 2. All Languages and Learning may be learn'd there by having some of all Nations Tradesmen who may teach their Mother Tongue to the Youth as they teach it their own Children 3. Men and Children submit easier to Rules and Laws they see others submit to as well as themselves than if they were alone as Children in a School and Soldiers in an Army are more regular and in subjection than when scattered asunder 4. They will be more under the Eye-sight of one Master or another than in a private Family and consequently prevented of more Folly 5. Company being the delight of all Creatures whether Men or Beast and the World being so corrupted makes its Company a great Snare to Youth but the Colledge having company sufficient will prevent the Temptation of going abroad and being well govern'd will much prevent the Evils that are learn'd abroad 6. There may be a Library of Books a Physick-Garden for understanding of Herbs and a Laboratory for preparing of Medicines And tho' Ships and Boats cann't swim in the Colledge the Men that manage them may be of the Colledge-Fellowship and have their Conveniencies thence as well as return their Profit or Cargoes thither In short As it may be an Epitomy of the World by a Collection of all the useful Trades in it so it may afford all the Conveniencies and Comforts a Man can want and a Christian use Answers to several Objections Object 1. THo' the Work be very Good and Excellent if it could be Accomplished yet there will be so much Difficulty Laebour and Care in the doing it there will not be found Men that will undertake the Toil of it Answ. 1. This Objection would have prevented any good Work if Difficulty would have prevented the doing it 2. If the Act be but good we may hope God will raise Instruments for tho' some Men have taken up a Rest in their Estates and seek only a Provision and Diversions in it for their own Families yet there is many have a touch of a more Universal Love 3. Tho' it would be Toilsome for any one Man or a few yet 't is easily done by a greater Number as one Man cannot and ten Men must strain to lift a Tun weight yet one hundred Men can do it only by the strength of a Finger of each of them 4. As this will be a greater Charity than most Gifts by the great good it will do to the Poor so it will be as certain Profit to the Founders as most Trades and consequently worth some of their time as well as any other Trade 5. If evil men corrupt and debauch their fellow Creatures by the Influence and Opportunities their Estates give them Is there not the greatest Reason Prudence for good Men to place their Estates at least some of it so as it may influence many to Vertue especially when it will bring Profit with it And whether some may not be raised to an Estate as Queen Hester was to a Crown for to be Instruments in such a work and then will it not add to the difficulty of making up their account at the last day if they neglect so great an Opportunity of doing Good when it was in their hands Object 2. The Times being troublesome and Trade dull it 's not seasonable to set such a thing a foot and if we should have the Calamity of War or any other among us the Undertaking would be Ruined Answ. 1. It is the chiefest time when Trading's dull because now the Poor cannot so easily get work they will the readier accept of new Masters and Terms whereas when Trade comes quick the best VVorkmen will be fix'd under rheir Old Masters and only the worser sort want work 2. If Calamities should come of any sort the Poor in a Body would subsist better than if single because when together their Labour would provide Conveniencies one for another which single Persons could do little at 3. VVhatever Calamities would ruine a Colledge will much easier ruine single Persons and therefore if danger of losing all its best for the Rich to do some good whilst they have it for if they should lose their Estates it would be out of their power to do it And besides if the Poor be put in a good Method they may be able to help their old Benefactors when the Rich may have nothing to help themselves nor cannot work for want of use Object 3. But if there should happen a Scarcity or Famine in the Land how will the People be provided for then Answ. 1. If more vertuous than the rest of the Nation they may hope to scape better but not else 2. But as there is hopes by good Orders of a more