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authenticity of the one with the earlier date. A farther serious 

 inconsistency was pointed out to me by Mr. Howard M. Ghapiii, 

 Librarian ot the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, and 

 was aftei-wards independently observed by my friend Professor 

 Lotsy, of Haarlem. The Introduction of the later pamphlet opens 

 with the words 



This lecture is founded upon a theory, eutiroly original upon this side of 

 tile Atliintic, and which first developed itself in my uiind about the year 18'i3 — 

 at which time I published a sumU article in a Boston paper, from which 

 luicleus was produced and delivered the greater jjart of this discourse, in the 

 year ISoG, before the Hopkins Literary Association of North Providence — of 

 which I was then President — in which capacity, I became acquainted with 

 F. W. Miner, who, to reciprocate a like act, invited me to deliver it before 

 the South Providence Lyceum, where it was also well received. 



The next delivery of it occurred from an invitation to present it as the 

 lirsl, or opening lecture of the " Member's Course of Franklin Lyceum Lec- 

 tjre?," which was done, and it stands so recorded — uotwithstanding every 

 jiieans have been used to efface it. 



The Introduction then goes on to speak of the attempts made 

 to deliver the lecture on Feb. 8 and again on Feb. 2-I-, 1»60. 



I have quoted the above sentences in order to shew that the 

 author was extremely careful to give the history of the develop- 

 ment and the exposition of his thoughts on education in relation 

 to civilization. And yet these very thoughts are set forth in 

 considerable detail on pages 12-18 (also 12-18 of the Appendix to 

 the present Address) of the 1849 booklet, stated in the Intro- 

 dtiction to contain lectures delivered in 1817, and to be founded 

 on ideas which entered the author's mind when he was 17, viz., 

 in the year 1843. We cannot doubt that if the pamphlet dated 

 1819 had been in existence in 1860, the author would have 

 referred to it in his Introduction. 



Mr. J. F. Sleeper maintains, on the contrary, that there is a 

 real difference between the two pamphlets, which accounts for 

 the want of any reference from the later to the earlier. He 

 states that in 1847 his father looked upon Education as the 

 otf^pring of Civilization, but in the next decade regarded Civiliza- 

 tion as the offspring of Education. I am sure, however, that no 

 one can read pages 12-18 of the accompanying Appendix with- 

 out recognising the fact that Education is given the primary 

 place, just as in the 1860 pamphlet, and that "the advance of 

 civihzation " spoken of in the title (Appendix, p. 1) was a pro- 

 gress which the author maintained in that very lecture to have 

 been brought about by " Mother Education " (Appendix, p. 17). 



12. l^Jie BooJdtt contains Ideas imjjli/ing Knowledge 

 mucli later than 1849. 



My friend Professor Van Bemmelen, of Grroningen, has pointed 

 out to me that the ideas ou the germinal origin and germinal 

 transmission of characters set forth on pp. lOj 11, and 14 (also 



