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Explanation of the law’s motives.

I set the age of twelve years old as the beginning of trade apprenticeships because this period, to me, seemed to be the most appropriate & prevent any inconvenience. Before the age of twelve, the child may possibly not have the sufficient strength to carry out work; in fact, the time preceding this age could be dedicated to accumulating the education appropriate for this age group in primary schools. Later on, one risks reaching the perfection of a chosen art too late, or finds oneself caught by surprised during a time when the country requires of oneself other services. In rural areas, the child having reaching their twelfth year, joins a group that works with certain crops, carries on the work required, & remains immutably attached to it. In urban areas, the child who, at the same age, is fixed on a trade, should by the age of fifteen possess two advantages: physical strength, & the practice of a useful profession. Enriched by this sole inheritance, he may travel, with the security that freedom from need bestows, to the different territories of the Republic, improving in the exercise of his art through the reconciliation of experience, adding to his acquired knowledge, & forging through his own active industry the bases of a long-lasting happiness.