In some States the specimens are occasionally fed and suffered to exist for several years; but in the more temperate and better regulated regions, it is found in the long run more advantageous for the educational interests of the young, to dispense with food, and to renew the specimens every month⁠—which is about the average duration of the foodless existence of the criminal class. In the cheaper schools, what is gained by the longer existence of the specimen is lost, partly in the expenditure for food, and partly in the diminished accuracy of the angles, which are impaired after a few weeks of constant “feeling.” Nor must we forget to add, in enumerating the advantages of the more expensive system, that it tends, though slightly yet perceptibly, to the diminution of the redundant Isosceles population⁠—an object which every statesman in Flatland constantly keeps in view. On the whole therefore⁠—although I am not ignorant that, in many popularly elected School Boards, there is a reaction in favour of “the cheap system” as it is called⁠—I am myself disposed to think that this is one of the many cases in which expense is the truest economy.