ing leave to visit his native shades, was I the wigwam of his fungative ancestors, fa western wilderness, tattooed, and girdled tomahawk, revelling in transports amids and aboriginal barbarism of his tribe. The heart is smitten down with hum solemn contemplation of the high and u fashions all things by an inscrutable will. It would seem, therefore, to follow, th of free education will not secure the at religious reformation. There is no his knowledge from schools, and in the sense duced these results. It certainly will judiciously blended with industrial instru control or constrain the conscience; it m creet and careful, but not more conscienti reformations are accomplished by religiou The actual wants and necessaries of lif independent of the refinement suggested by civilized society, man would be as in ing amidst the shades and rural employ his tent and mantle, his corn and cattle, range of his desires; and these supplies v and abundant in proportion to his wan labor would be rich and romantic recreat ganization of society has created wants so that the stock for supply is scarce and ment is made an object of secret and ke with the sharpest activity of wit, skill, and violence. To supply these impending personal n ble and appalling work, from which th with fear and distrust, and to embark reasonable prospect of honorable and suc quires all the careful preparation which physical and mental powers during the This knowledge is not obtained exclus tainad in of the and udity n the which ystem oral or e that er pro- Des not these simple; ionable ges, liv ndry e entire sent or procure millions, fraud, Formida Is back ith any tion, re to the inority. ing his own subsistence. Personal exertions in this view, and as being essen animal existence, do not occur to his mind, and if w to reality, he is confounded and amazed. The first mental step to be taken in life is to knowledge of this fact, and then to prepare and fit and body for its practical execution to teach ma means, and how to do it-this is a matter of policy sity, not morality or religion. It is the first, most essential, and difficult task in 1 pare and arm the mind and body both for this irkso pugnant occupation, and for a patient and cheerful s to the doom imposed upon man at his fall, that t should be cursed for his sake-that briers and thist grow up in his path, and that by the sweat of his fa he earn his bread. So imposing is the magnitude of these obstacles formance of the necessary labors of life, that one-ha human race now live by trick and violence off of the their numbers would be fearfully augmented if it wa the dread of punishment. Every one can readil clearly understand the pressing necessity for an acc and thorough preparation for this unavoidable an journey; but the faculty of intimately feeling and appreciating the true nature and character of this m cise, is most difficult and perplexing. It would seem to require the necessary and practica of both the faculties of understanding and apprecia same time, to which must be added the simultaned tions of necessity, with a knowledge of the means The knowledge without the want, or the want w knowledge, does not form this mental crisis; they mu or there will be no pungent and perfect appreciation. This thought is beautifully illustrated by the thri lations of David Copperfield (Dickens) who, at the years, timid, feeble, afflicted, and crushed by ad placed on the lowest form of Doctor Strong's school bury where the contrast betwean himself and the down upon a crouching, timid child, sittin ment upon his first form; and with all for moral and Christian sympathy, he is u or excite it, even with the pungent rec dreary hours in that school; he cannot fe the fluttering emotions which swell the successor. The exercises of his understanding alon were moved. His early excitements were he could understand and appreciate all the eight or ten, most eminently, when it was the exciting emergencies, that had roused impulses, had subsided, and the mind w pressure of its own fears and wants—the the power of appreciation had vanished, The feeling could be excited by urgencie for another. The ability to understand, are clear and distinct; but the power to f but necessity will bring it into practical a It is the "art and mystery" to be lear in every trade and pursuit, the capacity cannot be explained; to appreciate his n sponsibility of providing for them. Thi of all instruction, without which man i world, as helpless and useless as a nak would be amidst the frightful agitation flagration. This intense sense of appreciating and duty, necessity, and resolution, is alone education, and not of a school-house. men is to make good boys. This is not them into schools, and keeping them the one years old; teaching them the beauti pursuits of religion: man must first be c in the religion of supplying his own p complish this, take him in his crude cond to the school room, at the age of five o looks ilder ation rouse = first eciate umble elings, help; age of t when e vivid om the pathy, return. but not to feel nothing prentice lo what the rey object a busy infant a con wledge. practical ke good coaxing twentyand the ! ciplined To ac nursery him in the ways of mental reflection and useful and by the time he is thirteen or fourteen years have acquired sufficient bodily and mental strength into employment, by which he may learn some usefu dually help to earn his own living, and assist to c increase, instead of enhancing the price, and dimi stock of public supply. Give him time to study and to go to school at least every winter, and an opportunity thoroughly to obt science belonging to the occupation he is learning course of education, up to the age of twenty-one, not more bad than good in his breed and blood, h out to be an intelligent, thinking, and more useful the enervated and puffed-up graduate, who has o whole of his minority in a free-school. If he has sities, no education will ever change his nature; it and better fit him for trick and cunning; but it wi or reform the secret impulses of his heart. The first described graduate will carry his dipl mind, and can practically explain it; he will have a serious sense of the solemn fact that he now has t of and provide for himself in a world where million in sharp and successful conflict, for all the gains and in every pursuit of life. He will have learned th capacity of entering into, and taking his part, in thi open field of fearful strife; how, if he fails in on begin another; how to control his appetites, his pri wants; how to persevere in toil, endure exposure, and poverty, and patiently submit to reproach and p how to maintain resolute and cheerful habits of ind gality, punctuality, and integrity in dealing; and humble, thankful, and reverent to his Creator. The other will be wholly ignorant of, and suddenl to learn, that his pressing wants must be supplied personal exertions; that he is hurried into a rude crowd, fiercely snatching from his grasp the necessar that he is jostled, pushed aside, and sneered at; the loss powers and unskilled wite will be ovorronabod s ployments vi the scaviai ате весоциату ан creative pursuits and productive occupatic that about one educated man to every fift enough; that schooling up to twenty-one yo make mind; and that the practical educat will most aptly fit the intellect, and prepar profoundest researches of learning, knowled All these mournful realities will fall like pair upon his ardent and blighted hopes; to to stanch the gushing sorrows of his broker The individual last described is the unf a common school; and if his compatriots a threatened follies of these times, the mul require the hospitals and conservatories bef there can be no more sure or certain cours cessary than to encourage every individual five and twenty-one years, to adopt the pla spending his minority. The well educated and independent nob has had his preparations for an honora wrought out under wholesome and benign i by the wisdom of ages, for the appropria virtuous and industrious from the arts and and the lazy. The right of society to enforce a system o police, upon all these domestic matters, lie elements of the social compact. It has for its basis the common wants an it blends its benevolent reciprocalities wit necessities of life, and the brightest consc lights up the rich and glorious sunbeams of golden lamp of eternity. We have no right to compel any one te receive religious instruction; this is a card and natural liberty, resting with the con. ment of which has repeatedly bathed the blood, and for the consecration of whic |