Dr. Barnes on Puhlic and Private Education. 



who do. If, therefore, the one may be fuppofed 

 to animate, or to afliame, the other may, with 

 equal truth, be fuppofed to keep thofe in coun- 

 tenance, whofe abilities are not fo bright, or 

 whofe induftry is not fo unremitting." 



In vindication of the order, which I have 

 afilgned to knowledge, it may be obferved, that 

 the great end of mental cultivation is, to give 

 that cxercife and habit to the various powers of 

 the mind, which may enable them to ad here- 

 after, in all the affairs of human life, with the 

 greateft advantage. It is not merely, the quan- 

 tity of ideas acquired, but the ability obtained 

 by the foul, of thinking, reafoning, and deter- 

 mining rightly, in every event of the changeful 

 fcene, which is of the greateft importance.* 



III. TEMPER. 



Cr, perhaps, more properly social affec- 

 tions. 



It may be urged, by the advocates for private 

 fchools, "That there the heart is longer under 

 the influence of the fofter and more domeftic 

 feelings — That reverence to parents, and love 

 to brothers, fiflers, and other relations, is there 

 in continual habit — That on thefe mild and ten- 



* " Leotychides interrogatus, quid potiflimum oportet 

 pueros ingenuos difceie ! Quae illis, inquit, ubi ad 

 virilem setatem pervenerint, ufui fun: futura." Cicero, 



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