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Dr. Barnes on the Affinity 
ticn: and let every fubfcriber have the power of 
nominating one, or more, to receive the advantages 
of this Inftitution.” 
I mean only to draw the rudeft outline of the 
plan, and would leave it to the enfuing con- 
verfation to be filled up, with colouring, or fhade. 
By this fcheme, properly methodized and con¬ 
duced, I fhould hope for fame of the following 
advantages. 
This mechanic SCHOOL would properly finijh 
the education of a young Tradefman, or Manu¬ 
facturer. It would fucceed, in its natural order, to 
the fchool for writing, and arithmetic. It would 
ferve as a proper ftep of tranfitjon, from thence 
to the warehouie j and, perhaps, it might become 
a regular part of a young Gentleman’s preparation 
for bufinefs. How defirable a part it would 
be, I will not here fay. Other Gentlemen prefent 
are much better qualified to decide upon the * 
queftion. 
But the principal advantage I fhould propofe 
from this lcheme, is this. Here would be a 
kind of general ORACLE, which thole might 
confult, who were engaged in mechanical im¬ 
provements, and who might here, at once, gain 
that information, which it might coft them 
months and years to obtain, by their own un- 
afiified efforts. 
It would be very eafy to enlarge, in theory, 
upon the poffible, and probable benefits of this 
Inftitution. 
