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ESSAY on a SYSTEM of NATIONAL EDUGATION, 
adapted tt IRELAND. By STEPHEN DICKSON, State 
Phyfician, -Profeffor of the Praétice of Medicine in Trinity 
College Dublin, Fellow of the College of Phyficians in Ireland, 
M.R.[I. A. F.R.S. S.A. and Honorary Member of feveral 
Medical Societies. 
E:pucation may be defined the rearing of youth. Youth 
ought to be reared in fuch a manner as will be moft conducive 
to their future welfare. The welfare of a nation confifts in 
the ftrength, good order, and {kill of the individuals who 
compofe it. 
Or national education, then, that muft be the beft fyftem 
by means of which the health, the morals, and the informa- 
tion of the youth of the nation may be moft univerfally and 
effectually promoted. 
In the following effay I fhall confider how the promotion 
of thefe great objects may be facilitated by a fyftem of na- 
tional education which fhall include the children of the la- 
bouring poor. 
As 
Read July 95. 
1792. 
