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At Home And Abroad

PART II
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Of this Journal they issue regularly eighty thousand copies, and it is doing an excellent work, by awakening among the people a desire for knowledge, and, to a considerable extent, furnishing them with good materials.

I went over their fine establishment, where I found more than a hundred and fifty persons, in good part women, employed, all in well-aired, well-lighted rooms, seemingly healthy and content.
Connected with the establishment is a Savings Bank, and evening instruction in writing, singing, and arithmetic.

There was also a reading-room, and the same valuable and liberal provision we had found attached to some of the Manchester warehouses.

Such accessories dignify and gladden all kinds of labor, and show somewhat of the true spirit of human brotherhood in the employer.

Mr.Chambers said he trusted they should never look on publishing _chiefly_ as _business_, or a lucrative and respectable employment, but as the means of mental and moral benefit to their countrymen.


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