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THIS work is a dissertation, which was read before the "Society of Christian Morals," at Paris, in September, 1824; and for which a prize of three hundred dollars was awarded to the author. Honourable mention was made of two out of five other performances entered for the same prize. One of them was by M. Depping, author of several valuable works, and honoured in 1822 with a prize by the "Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres;" the other by M. Querret, late tutor at Saint Malo. His performance was entitled "Education for the Labouring Classes."

The object of this prize, and of these dissertations, will be best stated, by quoting the question as originally proposed; it was thus:

Is there not in our system of public instruction, between the primary schools and colleges, a chasm which it would be useful to supply by establishments of a special nature? What would be the advantage of such establishments, and what organization and plan of studies ought to be adopted therein ?

The class of seminaries, to which this question and this treatise relate, are of modern and very recent origin; they teach the most useful and practical knowledge by the most natural and obvious means; they adapt the discipline of boyhood to the

business of manhood. Among other useful maxims, which we remember to have learned from our spelling-book, was this: "Agesilaus being asked what he thought most proper for boys to learn, replied, that which they will have to do when they come to be men. In tracing the history of modern education, one would scarcely believe that this remark, sufficiently obvious in itself, had been handed down among the memorabilia of a great man, who flourished two thousand years ago. He should rather think it a discovery of modern times, as much as steam-boats or spinning-jennies. This neglect and apparent ignorance of truths the most familiar, illustrate an important principle in the philosophy of mind, and one to which teachers of youth ought to be extremely attentive. The principle we conceive to be this; ideas may be repeated so often, that the mind will become as insensible to them as if they had never been conveyed to it at all; or, to imitate the language of the older metaphysicians, they may get a pathway worn so smooth in the brain, that they finally pass without the sentient substance perceiving it; and then, as it regards the sum of our knowledge, it is just the same as if those ideas had not entered the mind at all. A similar phenomenon takes place every day with respect to hearing; a house clock or a town clock may strike without our observing it, although we are in the same room with the one, or in the neighbourhood of the other; even the noontide bell often rings in unheeding ears; and that sound, so welcome to the labourer and the artisan, has no charm,-no existence to minds absorbed in business, study, or meditation. It is a common observation, that the natives, who dwell near or among the most interesting remains of ancient grandeur, and tread every day the fields of ancient glory, are almost wholly insensible to the precious associations of their soil, and, but for this same effect of frequent repetition, would be plunged into inextricable amazement, to see strangers arrive, and pay money to visit desert plains and shapeless ruins. How different the sensations of a well educated stranger. Accompany the renowned and amiable orator of Rome in one of his Athenian hours, devoted to the illustrious dead, and tread with him

........ the sacred walks Where at each step imagination burns.

"We agreed," says he, "that we would take our afternoon's walk in the Academy, as at that time of the day it was a place where there was no resort of company. Accordingly, at the

hour appointed, we went to Piso's. We passed the time in conversing on different matters, during our short walk from the double gate, till we came to the Academy, that justly celebrated spot, which, as we wished, we found a perfect solitude. I know not, said Piso, whether it be a natural feeling or an illusion of the imagination founded on habit, that we are more powerfully affected by the sight of those places which have been frequented by illustrious men, than when we either listen to the recital or read the detail of their great actions. At this moment I feel strongly that emotion which I speak of. I see before me the perfect form of Plato, who was wont to dispute in this very place; these gardens not only recal him to my memory, but present his very person to my senses. I fancy to myself that here stood Speusippus; there Xenocrates, and here on this bench, sat his disciple Polemo. Quâcunque ingredimur in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus.'"

The establishment of this new class of public seminaries, from the mention of which we have somewhat digressed, is undoubtedly one of the most valuable improvements in this age of improvement. We have already taken occasion to refer to, or to describe several schools of this kind. They differ from common and primary schools by adding something that is scientific to the elementary arts of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and they differ from colleges by teaching what is strictly practical and universally useful, instead of that which is partially useful, obsolete, or merely ornamental; they teach the modern, instead of the dead languages, drawing instead of Latin verses, and Tull's Horse-hoeing Husbandry instead of Aristotle's Logic. That the knowledge of the dead languages will always be respectable, and, to a certain extent, useful among men, we have no doubt; but that they will continue to occupy the undue space which they have hitherto held in our systems of general education, we do very much doubt.

The strong, and, in our opinion, decisive argument in favour of this new class of seminaries, is derived from the utility and the obligation of giving to every youth an education suited to his situation; and the necessity of completing the system of public instruction, so that it may rise by proper gradations, like a well proportioned pyramid; and not present the monstruosity of the base and the apex without the body of the building, or an apex alone without either base or body. Fortunately the utility of schools affording this kind of instruction, is no longer a question with the citizens of Boston and many other places in the United