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ing itself in the careful collection of intricate but useful 
information, and to fear nothing so much as to be outdone 
by their clafs fellows. 
This mode of education I would continue, accompany- 
ing it with the manly exercises of wrestling and the chace, 
until their bodies and their minds were fully invigora- 
ted. 
They fhould not leave the schools till fifteen, nor the 
- colleges until twenty-one; and four years more I would 
‘allot for the study of politics, the belles lettres, beaux 
‘arts, and ‘to foreign travel. 
To the present mode of education may be imputed 
the frivolity and indecency of our women, and the want 
of learning and public spirit among our men. 
Our women are educated in general more upon the oe 
of governefses, opera girls, or fortune hunters, than of wives 
and mothers. They are taught, with, or without genius or 
fortune, to speak a language for which they have little or 
po use in this country, and which leads to the expensive 
fopperies on/y of a great and respectable nation, whom we 
venture to call perfidious, because it withes to oppose the 
the tyranny of a nation that would usurp the freedom not 
only of her own distant subjects, but of the nations of 
Europe and of Asia. 
They are taught, with or without genius, to play on 
musical instruments, to sing, and to dance a minuet, 
which their countrymen in general have either not abili- 
ties or taste enough to dance with them. 
All these accomplifhments are attempted to be taught - 
within the compafs of three or four years; and the plain 
girl, with five hundred pounds fortune, is educated in the 
‘game manner with the beauty who has five thousand. 
