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improvement and extension of those trades and
employments which are carried on within doors.
Let it not be forgotten that 1200, or about
half the number of our parishes, are still without
schools, and that parental care, which has long
been the only, and will always be an important,
means of national education in Sweden, needs in
our times the assistance of the school to retain its
sacred character and its influence [1].
But if it is an incontestible truth, that raw
ignorance is the principle origin of crime, one
must nevertheless allow that it is often occasioned
by misery and poverty. The state ought
consequently to keep a watchful eye on commerce,
navigation and trade, less in the character of a
guardian, than as an enlightened and attentive
physician, who understands how and when to take away
the hindrances to the free and strong development
of the natural powers. It ought to appear less
strict in demanding juridical proofs of the
possibility any one may have of supporting himself,
than active in preparing new and extended means
for that purpose.
An improved municipal system and more
efficacious poor laws, belong also to those measures,
which necessity demands, in order to enable us,
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