lOO ON AMERICA. May 25, 



•which mnft prove fatal to the progrefs of literature 

 See Adam Smith's wealth of nations under the head of 

 colleges. — That claffical learning is not held in fuffici- 

 ent efteem, and what is extremely remarkable, has 

 been in fome degree publicly difcouraged by an emi- 

 nent profeiTor of Philadelphia, who is otherwife a per- 

 fon of great prudence and merit, to whom I recom- 

 mend the perufal and due confideration of Doctor Bea- 

 tie's excellent treatife on the fubjeft of claffical educa- 

 tion ; a book no doubt to be found in all the principal 

 libraries of North America, and which argues fo con- 

 vincingly on the fubjeft, that I am aftoniflied any man 

 of claffical learning himfelf, Ihould have become an ad- 

 vocate againft it. ^ 



No time ought to be lofl; in North America, to in- 

 troduce a general attention to the right inftitution of 

 youth. Combinations ought to be formed in every 

 county, province and city, for that pui'pofe, and fmall 

 academies, inftiead of large colleges, ought to be pi^o- 

 moted, particularly under the direfticn of clergymen; 

 by which means a brood of learned clergymen will be 

 eftabliflied on the continent, and every parifh will have- 

 the feeds of ufcful learning carefully fown, which will 

 produce a virtuous and piofperous people hereaf- 

 ter. 



Sunday fchools fhould be every where eftablifhed for 

 the inftruftion of fervants, and of the labouring poor, 

 and premiums ought to be given at the expence of the 

 ftate, with a filver medal to be hung round the neck 

 of thofe, who at the quarterly or annual examinations 

 at thefe funday fchools, have been found beft inftrufted, 

 and of the moft exemplary morals ; and fimilar ho- 

 nours fhould be granted by the truftees of the different 

 colleges, to the young men who have deferved them by 

 their learning and virtue. 



The education of the female fex ought to be parti- 

 cularly attended to, and the fatal error avoided, that ^ 



