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an unprofitable and praltling Science. Sometimes 

 they (hould defend, among themfelves, the caufe 

 of a citizen ; fometimes they fhould deliver their 

 opinion refpeding a public event. They fliould 

 purfue the procefs of an art through it's whole: 

 courfe. Their eloquence would be a real elo- 

 quence, and their knowledge real knowledge* 

 They fliould employ their minds on no abftrufe 

 Science, in no ufelefs refcarch, which are ufually 

 the fruit of pride. In the ftudies which I propofe, 

 every thing fhould bring us back to Society, to 

 Concord, to Religion, and to Nature. 



I have no need to fnggeft, that thefe feveral 

 Schools fhould be decorated correfpondently to 

 their ufe, and that the exterior of them all fliould 

 ferve as walking places and afylums to the People, 

 efpecially during the long and gloomy days of 

 Winter. There they fliould every day behold 

 fpedacles more proper to infpire them with vir- 

 tuous fentiments, and with the love of their coun- 

 try, I do not fay than thofe of the Boulevards, or 

 than the dances of Vauxhall, but even than the 

 tragedies of Corneille. 



There fhould be among thofe young people, no 

 fuch thing as reward, nor puniQiment, nor emula- 

 tion, and, confequently, ijp envy. The only pu- 

 niihment there inflided fhould be, to banifli from 



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