I'lgt. on education. S^ 



Natural phiiosophy. 

 A general view of the philosophical sciences. For 

 students who wifli to lay in a fund of general know- 



ledge. 



Mechanics. 

 K particular course, intended for those who wifh 

 to enter deeply into this branch of philosophy. In 

 this course fhouU be not only explained in a very 

 particular manner, the mathematical principles of 

 mechanics, but also a particular rationale ftiould be 

 given of the philosophical principles, on which are 

 constructed all the most remarkable and the most 

 useful machines that have been invented for the use 

 of man. in all parts of the globe ; illustrated by ac- 

 curate models of each, and accompanied with criti- 

 cal and practical observations, pointing out the pe- 

 culiar advantages and disadvantages of each for par- 

 ticular purposes, with the defects that experience 

 had discovered to attend each of them, and hints for 

 their improvement. 



In a manufacturing nation like Britain, where so 

 piuch of our succefs must depend upon the perfecti- 

 on of the machinery employed, a course of lectures 

 on the subject here proposed, appears to be one of 

 the most useful that could be named. It would 

 give our artists who fhould attend it, a stretch of 

 philosophical acumen, very different from that which 

 most of them now pofsefs ; and by bringing under 

 their view at an early period of life, all that varie- 

 ty of machines that had been invented and carried 

 into practice, it would not only give them a facility in 

 selecting that kind of machine which was best fitted 

 for the purpose they had in view, but would also 



