cf Liberal Education in Manchefter. 31 



enjoyed the advantages o^ early tuition^ in a more 

 eminent degree. Our public and private fchools 

 have juftly obtained a very confiderable cele- 

 brity, both at home and abroad. 



There is, however, in the opinion of many 

 intelligent perfons, deeply interefted in the fub- 

 je61, fomething elTential ftill wanting among us, 

 to complcat the courfe of education, for active 

 and commercial life. In their judgment, a pe- 

 riod fubfifts, in the life of a young man defio-ned. 

 for trade, which it is not ealy to fill up in the 

 moft advantageous manner. The want of a 

 happy tranfition from a grammar fchool to bufi- 

 nefs, by fome mode of more general and manly 

 inftruflion, fuited to that intermediate ftage, has 

 been fenfibly felt, as a defideratum of unfpeakable 

 importance. At prcfcnt, there is hardly any 

 middle line of educ2Ltion, between that, of a fchool 

 for the elements of language and accompts, and 

 that, of a college— the latter of which fcems bet- 

 ter adapted for a profedional man, than for one 

 defigned for commerce. It is furely defirable, 

 that he fliali nozv rife, from words to things, from 

 Language to fenriment. All that he has yet been 

 doing, is only preparatory to real knowledge. 

 Language, of itfelf, is but a fcaffolding to fci- 

 ence. And fhall the labour of fo many years 

 be now loft and forgotten, as it too commonly 

 is, when a young man leaves the fchool, and en- 

 ters upon life ? Or, {hall the gleanings of mixed 



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