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would be 312,000 barels per annum; the bounty of which 
amounts, at the above rate, to 197,600]. per annum: 
What good reason can be afsigned, why Britain fhould sa- 
crifice so much for reprefsing her own agriculture and ma- 
nufuctures ? 
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T. K. sends a pretty elaborate efsay on education, which our 
room did not permit us to insert. Among other particulars he ob- 
serves, that “‘ A man without education is like a watch without 
wheels, for it is impofsible he can fill any station of life without it.” 
And again, ‘‘ How does an ignorant person look in a learned company? 
He looks like a fool without either sense or judgement ; for he does 
» tot know what they are speaking about, &c.” I know few words the 
meaning of which are lefs generally understood in Scotland than rpu-= 
cation. In general it seems to be applied, as here, to what is commonly 
called Zearning, which in its turn is almost as much wrested from 
‘its original meaning, and is now almost exclusively applied to the ac- 
quisition of foreign languages, a thing which in itself, deserves not ° 
the name of learning; but is merely a scaffolding by means of which 
knowledge may be attained. 
Were Ito give a definition of learning, 1 fhould call it the acqui- 
sition of knowledge ; and were I to specify what education fhould per- 
form, it would be to put a person in the right train of acquiring wsefud 
knowledge. In that sense the acquisition of language may have its 
fhare. But much useful knowledge may be attained without that ; 
by consequence a man may have obtained a very good education 
without having been taught any other language than his mo- 
thertongue. A man of sense never will look like a fool, unlefs 
when he departs from his real character, and attempts to afsume 
another, and then he does not look like a fool only, but actually is a 
fool in that instance. No one will ever be blamed by persons of 
common sense for not knowing things that his situation ir 
life and circumstances did not put within his reach; but he 
may be blamed for acting fooliflly if he attempts to learn what 
his circumstances do not put within his reach, and what if he had at- 
tained, by having deprived him of the means of earning a proper sub- 
sistence, has rendered him a dependent, and consequently a mean and 
despicable animal. How many men may be found in Scotland 
who have got what fools call a good education, who have been thus 
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