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moft eafily feafible muft require various modifications, accord- 
ing to local advantageous or unfavourable circumftances. 
Tue following confiderations concerning the manner of rear- 
ing the youth of this kingdom relate, 1ft, To their health; 
adly, To their morals; and, 3dly, To their inftru€tion in the 
knowledge requifite for the feveral departments which they 
are to fill in fociety. 
Of Education as it concerns Health. 
Sucu is the connexion between the corporeal and intellec- 
tual faculties of man, that ‘the vigour of the former inva- 
riably tends to promote the energy of the latter. When the 
fenfes are acute and the perceptions vivid, the empire of the 
imagination is enlarged, and reafon has an extended fcope for 
exertion. When mufcular ftrength feconds the fuggeftions of 
the foul, the human being is perpetually ative. The power 
of overcoming obftacles is never long unattended by the in- 
genuity which points out the means, and the paflion which 
inftigates to the attempt. But dullnefs of fenfation and weak- 
nefs of frame are the parents of defpondence, and floth, and 
ignorance. 
Tue offspring of difeafed patents faintly ftruggle through the 
feeble ftate of childhood. Yet by care hereditary maladies may 
oftentimes be corrected, or even entirely deftroyed. Then the 
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