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Tue perfons qualified to reap advantage from this courfe 
of ftudy are thofe only who have previoutly received a liberal 
education in humanity and in the feiences, efpecially chemiftry 
and natural hiftory. 
Tue expence of the education of fuch men ought not to 
fall wholly upon the nation: for we are not to fearch for 
philofophers amongft the loweft ranks in fociety. But, to the 
fapport of men whofe genius leads them to this ftudy, and 
whofe previous acquirements qualify them for the purfuit of 
it, the nation ought to contribute at leaft fo much as the 
expence of a foreign education exceeds that of a domeflick 
one. 
FurtHER, men fo educated fhould be entitled to a prefer- 
ence above others in all offices relating to mines, and beftowed 
by government. Thefe men would alfo be preferred by mi- 
ning companies, becaufe it is obvioufly the intereft of all fuch 
companies to employ the moft fkilful as well as the moft ho- 
neft affiftants, and becaufe men who live by trade invariably 
purfue their intereft when they know it. 
Tue expence of contributing to the foreign education of 
mineralogifts fhould not, however, be a perpetual tax upon the 
nation. If the mines of Ireland fhould in procefs of time be 
as well wrought as foreign ones, the knowledge of mineralogy 
requifite for their cultivation could be acquired more eafily 
and more fuccefsfully at home than abroad: then the boun- 
ties to travelling ftudents ought to ceafe. 
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