rig On ihe Ujes of Claffical Education. 
I grant that fome ufeful treatifes in medicine arg 
occafionally publifhed in Latin, but thefe are few, 
and the argument will equally apply to the neceffity 
of accomplifhing the young phyfician, in all the 
European languages. In a word, let it be remem- 
bered, that I am not pleading againft the utility of 
the dead languages, but in favour of their general 
utility, againft the vulgar notion that they are only 
neceffary to certain profeffions. 
_ Of all branches of knowledge, the Law ought to 
be the plaineft, and moft eafily underftood. | Praying 
in an unknown tongue is not half fo great a folecifm, 
as the involving in myftery and obfcurity thofe rules, 
which are to govern the conduct of every individual 
citizen. How can I be expected to conform to laws, 
with which I am to be unacquainted, or which I 
cannot underftand?—What indeed are the evils to 
which the inhabitants of this country are not expofed, 
-on account of the complex and intricate nature of our 
laws? I muft obferve (and I do it with no inten- 
tional difrefpe& to the honourable and upright part 
of the profeffion) that all who are unfortunate 
enough to hold their property by any difputable 
title, or who have rafhly expofed themfelves in any 
_ way to the mifchiefs of legal chicanery, are made 
the prey of one clafs of citizens; and it is almoft 
proverbial, that of all Englifh commodities, Juftice 
is by far the moft expenfive. If any part of what 
I have urged on this topic, be confiftent with fact, 
ought: a slitfien\ education to be confidered as a neceffary 
qualification 
