be called alien. The second is such as is afforded in the
society itself.

Some parents, growing rich, and wishing to give their children a better
education, than they can get in their own schools, send them to others
to be instructed. Now the result has not been desirable, where it has
been designed, that such children should be continued Quakers. For how
is a poor solitary Quaker boy to retain the peculiarities belonging to
his religious profession, in the face of the whole school? Will not his
opinions and manners be drowned as it were in the torrent of the
opinions and manners of the rest? How can he get out of this whirlpool
pure? How, on his return, will he harmonize with his own society? Will
not either he, or his descendants, leave it? Such an education may make
him undoubtedly both a good and an enlightened man, and so far one of
the most desirable objects in life will have been accomplished, but it
certainly tends to destroy the peculiar institution of Quakerism.

The education, which is afforded in the society itself, is divisible
again into two kinds, into that which is moral or religious, and into
that which is literary or philosophical.

It must undoubtedly be confessed, in looking into that which is moral or
religious, that sufficient care is not always taken with regard to
youth. We sometimes see fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters, so
different in their appearance and deportment, that we should scarcely
have imagined them to be of the same family. I am not now speaking of
those parents, who may live in the towns, and who may be more than
ordinarily devoted to the mammon of the world, but of some who, living
both in town and country, give an example of a liberal and amiable
spirit, and of a blameless conduct to the world. That the former should
neglect and lose sight of their offspring, when their moral vision is
clouded by an undue eagerness after money, is not to be wondered at, but
that the latter should do it, is surprising. It is certainly true that
some of these are too indulgent in their families, contrary to the plan
and manner of their own education, or that they do not endeavour to nip
all rising inconsistencies in the bud. The consequence is, that their
children get beyond control in time, when they lament in vain their
departure from the simplicity of the society. Hence the real cause of
their disownment, which occasionally follows, is not in the children
running out of bounds, but