bse 
As the fubject is not lefs extenfive than important, I can- 
not expect that fome confiderations, deferving even of confi- 
derable regard, will not efcape my notice, ButI fhall be little 
folicitous of finifhing the minuter traits of fyftematic arrange- 
ment, if I be fo fortunate as to defign a correct outline. 
To delineate from abftract views an Utopian fcheme of 
national education, however confummate, would be of little 
advantage to a people already cemented in fociety. For it can- 
not be fuppofed that a great body of men, endowed with 
different portions of intelleCtual capacity, enlightened not only 
by different degrees but by various hues of knowledge, {pot- 
ted with prejudices of various cafts, {mitten with the love of 
feparate purfuits, and affected by a great diverfity of private 
interefts, fhould ever confpire to carry into effect even the 
beft digefted fyftem of fpeculations originating from any in- 
dividual. 
Tue obje& of the patriotic propofer of the queftion under 
confideration will (it is apprehended) be better attained by 
merely fketching out a model of civil polity according to the 
leading features of which we might and ought to mould thie 
rifing generation of Ireland. 
Ir appears advifeable in a difquifition of this kind, to 
keep conftantly in view not only the genius and the intereft, 
but even the prefent ftate of the country which claims our 
chief regard. But I conceive that it would be improper to 
enter very minutely into the detail-of any plan; fince the 
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