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sible to subsist upon his salary alone, he will naturally be 
induced to exert himself as much as pofsible, to obtain 
scholars, that his prefsing wants may thus be supplied. 
And as there is no compulsory. law for causing patents to 
send their children to school, he finds, that the only way 
he can take to. augment the number of his scholars, and ~ 
to obtain the good-will of their parents, is to exert him- 
self to the utmost, in the faithful discharge of his duty as 
a teacher; well knowing, that if he can succeed in esta- 
blifhing his reputation in the neighbourhood, he will thus 
not only become a more respectable member of society, 
but will also have his wants proportionally relieved.—Put 
the case, however, that instead of a scanty salary,|which 
absolutely requires the aid of his teaching fees to furnifh 
a moderate subsistence to his family, that that salary fhould 
be so much augmented, as to enable him, in many cases, to 
live better without teaching at all, than he can now do 
even with the afsistance he derives from the fees of his 
scholars ; is it not obvious, that he weuld not, in this last 
case, have the same stimulus to exert his industry asin the 
former ?—In this point of view, a moderate salary must 
necefsarily excite the industry of schoolmasters, in a much 
higher degree than a larger one ; and, by consequence, 
an addition to that salary must tend to discourage the cause 
cf literature, instead of promoting it. In those universities 
where the salaries are high, the profefsors are universally 
observed to become indolent. The care of teaching is 
left to those who choose to undertake it, while the pro- 
fefsors content themselves. with living in ease upon their 
affluent salaries ;—but where the salaries are moderate, as. 
at Edinburgh, the profefsors are under the necefsity of ex- 
erting themselves to raise a reputation, and obtain nume- 
roug students ; because, without the aid of their fees, they 
could not support themselves with a becoming dignity.. 
