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at one and the fame time. The natural talents, 

 frequently unknown in moft men, would manifeft 

 themfelves at fight of the different objeâ:s which 

 might be prefented to them. More than one 

 Achilles would feel his blood all on fire on behold- 

 ing a fword : more than one FancanfoUy at the af-« 

 peel of a piece of machinery, would begin to me- 

 ditate on the means of organizing wood or brafs. . 



The attainment of all this various knowledge, 

 I (hall be told, will require a very confiderable 

 quantity of time : but, if we take into confidera- 

 tion that which is fquandered away in our colleges, 

 in the tirefome repetitions of lefTons; in the gram- 

 matical decompofitions and explications of the 

 Latin tongue, which âio not communicate to the 

 fcholar fo much as facility in fpeaking it; and in 

 the dangerous competitions of a vain ambition, it 

 is impoffible not to admit that we have been pro- 

 pofing to make a much better ufe of it. The 

 fcholars, every day, fcribble over, in them, as 

 much paper as fo many attorneys*, fo much the 



more 



* Ï am perfuaded, that if this plan of education, indigefted as 

 it is, were to be adopted, one of the greatefl obfi:acIes to the uni- 

 verfal renovation of our knowledge and morals would be, not 

 Regents, not academical Inftitutions, not Univerfity Privileges, 

 not the fquare caps of Doclors. It would come from the Paper 

 Merchants, one of whofe principal branches of commerce would 



thereby 



