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-Havine now endeavoured to fhew how inftru¢tion in ma- 
nufactures may be beft promoted, few words will fuffice to 
afcertain what kinds. ought to be principally encouraged in a 
fyftem of national education. ; 
Tue manufactures beft entitled to encouragement are thofe 
which are moft favourable to health and good morals, beft 
affifted by the natural refources of the kingdom, moft con- 
genial to the difpofition and habits of the people, and moft 
prized by the inhabitants of other countries. 
Of inflruétion in profeffional and polite literature. 
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Tus fpecies of inftruction being chiefly defigned for thofe 
who are to fill the higher orders of fociety appears to be 
lefs immediately the obje@& of our prefent inquiry than any 
of the foregoing. The education of the rich muft neceffarily 
be lefs fyftematical than that of the poor; both becaufe the 
knowledge of the former is more various, and muft therefore 
be drawn from a greater variety of fources ; and becaufe 
men in fuperior ranks are likely to judge themfelves what 
kind of education is beft fitted for their children, and pofleis 
the means of carrying the refult of their judgment into exe- 
eution. It muft, however, be acknowledged that all men are 
more or lefs fwayed by cuftom: it feems therefore advifeable 
to point out what fpecies of education ought to be cuftom- 
ary, what eftablifhments ought to be encouraged for inftruc- 
tion in profeffional and polite literature. 
Vot. IV. (1) I sHALL 
