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CHAPTER I.

EDUCATION.

Education extensive in U. S.-will test the question if it morals and mind—If Napoleon had not been educated, qu pettifoggers, &c.-But few minds strong enough for profe will rise-Education does not make mind-Too much e education-Ignorant parents cannot educate their childre navy; examination periodically-Should be so with all profe &c.-But opposite extreme to be avoided-Poor schools lief, for bread, &c.; food necessary, &c.-Schooling a m Factionists make it general to flatter the poor-Shoul poor only; and to them to read and write, and then learned Takes time; they should be at trades, &c.-Great men se Morals-Mind-Passions-Mental Sensation-Will-Imp ity-Millions ignorant of their own science-Man p ness-Proper education useful-If all from 5 to 21 are trai they cannot make livings-To make them work all this drudges Should be practical, and before 21-Apt to det this--There should not be too many in the profession cussed, viz. 1.-No power to tax, but to school poor-th beyond 13, females, and 14 males. 3.-If for any, even b poor. 4.-Effect of education, all from 5 to 21. 5.-WH 21, improves the morals. 6.-If an education given by a regulation is not enough. Result of this if enforced p Streets clear of vagabonds. 2.-Property, person, and life Gaming houses, &c., stopped. 4.-The bad would hav agement. 5.-All that is robbed, &c., would be saved. would reform.-Childhood, time for education and restrain Fine clothes, with pocket money-No boys now; all a prentices refractory-Swarms of half learned in all e Such of both sexes unfit for matrimony, and rush on it-F

broader and more enlightened scale than tried.

This will test the proposition whether obtained by a knowledge of the rudime improve both the morals and understandin against the seductions of sin and ignoranc

No man in the United States can plead to learn how to read and study for himself The Sunday Schools, Free Schools, and embrace almost the entire infant populatio will, perhaps, show a race of men superior other nation in the world.

It must be remembered that this ligh Heaven, falls upon the just and the unjust, ishing the rank and poisonous weeds as grass.

Whether this mental amelioration and e who are well disposed, will not be counte vantages in like manner given to the wic better fitting them for adroit perpetrations

There is at this time a very great num artful knaves in the United States, who places of influence and power, and are e pared for schemes and plots involving the dangerous consequences to the private pu fare of the people.

Knowledge is power to the bad as well If Napoleon had never known how to r great genius might have been confined to the Levant. By learning and knowledg mind to be far above the masses. By th confidence in himself, and in the name of skilfully buccaneered upon the lives and tinent.

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The American experiment of graduating ignor and admitting to the practice as doctors and 1 schooled and lazy mechanics and presumptuous a down hostlers and peddlers, and dubbing the highe degrees for favor and money on every audacious has turned loose upon society an army of profess bonds, who have become a common and notorious men of education and to the country at large.

Unless oppressed, genius will have light, and to and perspicuous intellect, knowledge then becomes If the lion knew his strength, he would not suffe be caged.

It is a momentous question big with curious refle The United States will soon double the force of political maxim, that "Eternal vigilance is the price for the enemies of its free institutions, by this syst cation, are taught to feel and use their power for ba for honest purposes.

Perhaps there is too much expected from educ men know by observation and experience, that hone productive, and hence some are led to infer that a must produce similar results. This would seem to clusion by which almost every mechanic and tr governed, who, if able, most resolutely educate and their sons, however numerous, with learned professi Nothing can be more absurd. Being uneducated they do not know how to superintend the educati children, and are therefore imposed upon by their

half learned.

The parents have no appropriate means of sta sons in their own professions with the advantages o perience, credit, character and customers, as they

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