MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 

 SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER, 



A brief Comparison of Jome of the •principal 

 Arguments in Favour of public and private 

 Education. By Thomas Barnes, D. D. 

 Read May 7, 1783. 



THERE are few queftions more im- 

 portant, when confidered in every point 

 of view, than thofe which relate to 

 education. Allowing the original dif- 

 ferences ftamped upon human minds to be 

 -great, yet education marks far greater and 

 flronger lines of diilindion, between one mind 

 and another. It was education, which formed 

 the poliflied and lettered fage, in the £era of 

 the higheft Grecian fplendour. And it is educa- 

 tion, which moulds the favage Indian for the 

 defert. 



Vol. II. B *' Dii 



