256 Uiterary olla. No x. Oct. 16. 
Useful needle work, and the occupation’ of the lovely 
daughters of king Alcinous, with the economy of a table, 
the history of their country, their father and mother’s fa- 
mily, and those illustrious women who have adorned their 
sex, and blest their families with examples worthy of 
imitation, are considered only as secondary objects. 
The education of our men is quite of a piece with that 
of our womesi ; all the pursuits of a wonderful Chrichton 
are crowded into the compafs of a few years, during 
which time there is little or no discipline te correct the 
natural sloth and idlenefs of youth; neither are they war- 
ned against the effeminate practices of young men, at the 
critical age of puberty, which exhaust the vigour of man- | 
kind, and wither the stems of families. 
They are taught to consider money, acquired by any 
ptofefsion, however mean or grovelling, nay even by ga- 
ming, by rapine, fraud, and murder, as the only roads to 
distinction, in a country become altogether venal, and 
that venality even sanctified by the monstrous nature of 
the constitution of the nation itself. " 
From schools and colleges, the young man goes abroad, 
or fixes in a profefsion. If he goes abroad raw_and un- 
principled, he goes not like the wise Ulyfses, to study 
the manners and _laws of natieas, more polifhed than his 
own, but the opera girls, and fopperies and fafhions of o- 
ther countries, which have the same tendency in all ages, ' 
and in all cotntries. 
If he fixes in a profefsion, he carries along wyiele him 
the idlenefs and difsipation of our seminaries of learning. 
He scorns to labour a lifetime for an honest progrefsive 
acquisition of profit, but boldly ventures to cast the for- 9) 
tune of his lifetime on,a single dye. Indeed, who will | 
labour for a lifetime, when he thinks he can gain it in” 
half an hour. 
