ces are high, is by the _lowest_
classes of the people. The middle ranks, and those immediately under
them, abstain generally from such indulgences until the prices are
moderate."[109]

Perhaps it may be thought, that the consumption of oysters, crabs, and
pickled salmon, in London, or the management of the negro's _provision
ground_ in Jamaica, has little to do with a practical essay upon
economy and prudence; but we hope, that we may be permitted to use
these far fetched illustrations, to show that the same causes act upon
the mind independently of climate: they are mentioned here to show,
that the little _revenue_ of young people ought to be fixed and
certain.

When we recommend economy and prudence to our pupils, we must, at the
same time, keep their hearts open to the pleasures of generosity;
economy and prudence will put it in the power of the generous to give.

"The worth of everything
Is as much money as 'twill bring,"

will never be the venal maxim of those who understand the nature of
philosophic prudence. The worth of money is to be estimated by the
number of real pleasures which it can procure: there are many which
are not to be bought by gold;[110] these will never lose their
pre-eminent value with persons who have been educated both to reason
and to feel.

FOOTNOTES:

[96]

Here lies the mutton eating king; Whose promise none relied on; Who
never _said_ a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.

_Epitaph on Charles 2d._

[97] V. Taste and Imagination.

[98] Darwin's Zoonomia.

[99] Chapter on Imagination.

[100] Charles VI.

[101]

"No penance can absolve their guilty fame, Nor tears, that wash out
sin, can wash out shame."

[102] V. Persian Tales.

[103] V. Chapter on Temper.

[104] Mrs. Piozzi's English Synonymy, vol. i. p. 359.

[105] V. Toys.

[106] Lord Scarsdale's. Keddleston.

[107] V. Chapter on Sympathy and Sensibility.

[108] V. Edwards' History of the West Indies.

[109] V. a note in page 32 of the Treatise on the Police of the
Metropolis.

CHAPTER XXV.

SUMMARY.

"The general principle," that we should associate pleasure with
whatever we wish that our pupils should pursue, and pain with whatever
we wish that they should avoid, forms, our readers will perceive, the
basis of our plan of education. This maxim, applied to the cultivation
of the understanding, or of the affections, will, we apprehend, be
equally successful; virtues, as