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reasoning powers, no other compulsitor to study 

 ought to be employed, but those of the evident 

 ihteresi, or inclination of the student. And as it is 

 found by experience, that those things which are 

 attained with much facility are disregarded, while 

 what is purchased at a high price, is much prised, 

 there fliould be no such thing as gratiuitous lec- 

 tures to be given in this seminary, unlefs in such 

 cases only, as where, from the peculiarities of the case, 

 the teacher may think proper to make a present of 

 a ticket to such as he fliall deem deserving of it. 

 Neither ought the fees for admifsion to the lectures 

 to be small, but proportioned to the general opulence 

 of the country at the time. Nor fhould these be 

 arbitrary ; both the minimum and the maximum ought 

 to be fixed by the rules of the institution, and public- 

 ly known ; which would be attended with many ob- 

 vious consequences tending to preserve the dignity 

 of the preceptors, and independente of the students. 

 And if the fixed salaries of the preceptors were 

 low, as in the university of Edinburgh, the ofiice 

 of a prefefsor could never be desirable, unlefs to 

 such men only as were proficients in the particular 

 departments they were to teach, and who had a reaso- 

 nable prospect of obtaining such a number of effec- 

 tive students as ihould indeamify them for the 

 trouble of giving lectures. 



To insure agamst abuses in this department, liow- 

 ever, perhaps some far;;her precautions might be • 

 necefsary. Each'profefsor ftiould be required to de- 

 liver public lectures, five times a week, during e.ch 

 sefsion, which fhould not be kfs than four or five 



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