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There is not one man in ten thousand tellect sufficient for a learned profession. cient schooling suited for their intended them to work. If they have mental sphere, their indications of thought and m veloped. They will be quiet students, an dies; obedient and dutiful pupils; and gr to their parents, instead of being blasphe dissolute.

The community suffers the most incredi ries by the ignorance and negligence of scientific pursuits and in the professions.

Apothecaries, chemists, teachers, doct officers, by favor, presumption, and tric begin without adequate preparation. The all research and improvement, and depend ties of address and speech for success.

In the army and navy, besides an ascert fication, there is a board of aged and exp who, at short intervals, thoroughly exami other officers. Their duties are placed up legiate labor, in which the course of studi which there must be unremitted research, dence of improvement and progress, or the dismissed.

This wholesome discipline should be r civil, as well as military and naval fun there is more reason for it in the former class of individuals.

There can be no objection to it on the Gentlemen of moral rank and eminence

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The country is overrun with persons in all the ferred to, who never read or study, or keep up with ment and progress of the age. Of doctors and a who even lose their recollection of technical words; who have no books, and spend their time in deb judges, who read nothing but newspapers; who eat, drink, and smoke perpetually; dabble in polit lots, stocks, and lottery policies.

The baker's bread and the butcher's meat can every one; but the ability to do this does not apply terly fails in everything which depends upon art The one is palpable to the senses; and the other by deep and hidden mysteries.

Knowledge and learning may be assumed with i the crafty knave to the ignorant and unskilled, wh indemnified against such frauds by certain and abu tiny.

Nostrums, astrologers, pedagogues, demagogues, qu pettifogging lawyers, corrupt and ignorant judges, t dram-shops, monopolies, and gambling, have defiled fed upon the earnings, and tortured and slaughtered for ages.

It is now high time that the good sense of man banish them forever from the face of the earth, an lect, genius, true learning, industry, and integrity sl where prevail.

In the measures used to prevent these abuses, can taken not to run into the opposite extreme, by edu criminately the whole mass of society. They shou them be educated as scholars; some are required necessary work of society; and there is but a very s tion who are capable of receiving an education in sciences, and who have capacities above the depend tions of life.

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The primary rules of organized society the public any pauper liability, except for There was no moral or mental aid embraced The public has added their agreement as is is a gratuity, not a duty, and it is fraudul version to the accommodation of individ theoretical notions of general philanthropy

Because the people of Pennsylvania, 1 tously consent to tax themselves for the poor, it does not follow that they shall academies and colleges, where the arts and to all gratis. And that, by way of excuse they be told that they also may send the schools, and that they should do so to re children the stigma of pauperism.

There is no more reason why this benevol the pauper relief, granted for the childre taught, than for the children of the poor t

The reason is not so strong for the first cause to feed the poor is necessary, to teac A duty may, but a favor may not be dema all its incidents can be claimed and used a a gratuity cannot be claimed with allowanc The one carries with it appurtenances, and limited to its literal stint.

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Teaching the poor how to read, and write and re that was ever expected. These, including the first rules of arithmetic, has been all that for ages has nanted for by indentures of apprenticeship; all that i for their mental instruction and to enable them to tr private affairs, and all that is ever required for any not to be prepared for a learned profession or for so pursuit; all that is necessary, and certainly all that is to require the public to pay for in any country, mu the United States, where every man who has his he be able by his own earnings to educate his childr imposing upon the public, or degrading his offspring ism, for their schooling any more than for their clothing.

There is no difference in this respect between pro schooling, and no one with means who has the spir would humiliate himself by sending his child to a any more than he would send him to a soup-hous dinner gratis.

By this system, children are too often kept at the without any definite object as to their subsequent e and for the mere accommodation of ignorant and ca rents, who are too stupid and vain to set their childr labor, by which they can earn honest livings and lay tions for future habits of industry.

In the devise made by Stephen Girard, for the e "poor orphans," provision is expressly made for th tion "for some suitable occupation," and it is given press condition: That at fourteen or eighteen years of

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years, or that while he receives this aid he than those who work to give it to him, and know how to read, that his neighbors shall to school him longer and better than th children, or shall pay to keep him in a co teachers and costly appliances for years, to which he may or may not pursue as he may not have brains enough to follow, wh whom this tax is impertinently extorted c teach their own children.

A common school for all to go to can no the people of the United States, than a co The poor school is a part of the pauper ren of the poor necessary mental as well: What schooling is necessary is just so to enable them to read and write, togethe ments of grammar, geography and arithm

After this they can read and study th other books for themselves if they choose sition to do so.

All this is proper, just and honorable. feeling of parental kindness, the benevole protection by a wise and righteous governm

Beyond this limit the tax for, and the school should not go. None but the ch poor to pay for schooling should go to sucbut pauper children can go there withou the public.

If a boy has genius and is taught how will not be held in. His mind will vault u knowledge.

He will acquire learning without bein, obtain it.

There are more men perhaps in the Un been educated in the schools in proporti their inhabitants, than in any other cou

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