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to the proofs laid before them of the numbers of poor chil- 
dren inftructed in the different fchools. 
Tuc proofs to be required by the grand juries fhould be 
fpecial reports attefted by a certain number of refpeétable vifi- 
tors, of whom the minifter or curate of the parifh fhould al- 
ways be one. pIslg 
In this fyftem it would ‘be the intereft of all parties to 
promote the publick good, and fcarcely any opportunities 
would lie open “for abufe. Every child in the nation would 
be inftruéted :in ‘the ‘elements of learning and morality, and 
would. grow:up in habits of induftry and good order. 
Of inftruttion in Agriculture. 
Or all the occupations of man, that. which is moft con- 
-ducive to health, moft favourable to innocence, and moft pro- 
duétive of national advantage, is agriculture. 
Tuat the manly exercifes and labours of the field invigo- 
rate the frame of man and prolong its exiftence, and that 
ignorance of vice is more beneficial to fociety than the moft 
refined fpeculative knowledge of virtue, are pofitions which do 
not require: proof. It is alfo a truth equally certain, though 
lefs obvious, that the moft durable riches of a nation depend 
neither 
