nd the difference of individuals in each sex
will be brought into play. All this is favourable to morality. When
people work at the same kind of work, have no different pursuits to call
out the different qualities of the two sexes, and have all of them
manners of the same rude stamp, you can hardly expect that there will be
much to ennoble them in their affections.

But, in themselves, the accomplishments and acquirements, which working
people may attain from social intercourse with their betters, are great
things. The same kind-hearted employer, whom I have quoted before,
speaks thus upon the subject. "Another point which has appeared to me of
great importance is to provide as many resources as possible of interest
and amusement for their leisure hours; something to which they may return
with renewed relish when their daily work is done; which may render their
homes cheerful and happy, and may afford subjects of thought,
conversation and pursuit among them." Moreover, a habit of attention,
and even scientific modes of thought, are often called out in young
people when they are learning some game. Besides to do anything, or know
anything, which is harmless, is beneficial. A man will not be a worse
workman because he can play at cricket, or at chess; or because he is a
good draughtsman, or can touch some musical instrument with skill. He is
likely to have more self-respect, and to be a better citizen. He cannot
succeed in anything without attention and endurance. And these are the
qualities which will enable him to behave reasonably in the vicissitudes
of trade, or to prepare as much as possible against them.

In the Report on the condition of children and young persons employed in
Mines and Manufactures, there is some remarkable evidence given by a man
who had himself risen from the state of life which he describes. It
leads us to perceive the great good which any improvement in the domestic
accomplishments of the women might be expected to produce. He says,

"Children during their childhood toil throughout the day, acquiring
not the least domestic instruction to fit them for wives and mothers.
I will name one instance; and this applies to the general condition
of females doomed to, and brought up amongst, shop-work. My mother
worked in a manufactory from a very early age. She was clever and
industrious; and, moreover, she had the reputation of being virtuous.
She was regarded