Extenfton of Liberal Education in Manchefier. 2 1 



induftry of the Tradefman. Yet fuch examples 

 have been feen, and may fiill be feen among us. 

 For who will fay, that they are incompatible ? 

 or who would not wifli that his Ton might 

 exhibit fo fair, fo amiable an aflemblage of 

 excellence ? Perhaps, one reafon why they 

 are fo uncommon may have been, that thofe 

 places of education, which tend to form the 

 Gentleman and the Scholar, have been un- 

 friendly to the habits neceflary to the Tradef- 

 man; whilft the warehoufe, in which the Tradef- 

 man receives his mercantile mould, is, perhaps, 

 equally unfavourable to fuperior ornaments. 

 But would it not be pofTible, that the advantages 

 of both fhould be combined together ? In the 

 houfe of a parent, or refpeilable mafter, and 

 amidit general habits of bufinefs, a young 

 man, who fhould continue to devote fome pare 

 of his time to ftudy, would not be fo much 

 refined, as to be unfit for commerce. And, 

 perhaps, the happy art might be learned, of 



CONNECTING TOGETHER, LIBERAL SCIENCE and 



COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY. If the fchcmc appears 

 vifionary, yet it deferves a trial. It is, indeed, 

 as far as I know new. I have never heard of 

 a fimilar eftablifhment. But it might eafilv be 

 dropped, as foon as it appeared not to anfwer the 

 ends of its inftitution. 



A plan of this nature, in a large town, it does 

 not appear to me difficult to form, or to execute, 



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