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wy an age they are capable of being taught most of the 
ul arts and sciences ; and the advantages will be infinite 
a ancient prejudices can be so far removed as to teach 
them all they are capable of learning by instruments and 
designs, Calculated to bring many of even the difficult prob- 
lems in mathematics within the reach of their comprehen- 
sion. It will be an immense saving of the most valuable 
gift of nature, time, and tend greatly to the advancement of 
civilization. Igo in a few days to Paris, where | intend to 
sell my house, as Mr. Phiquepal goes to Philadelphia, 
with all his pupils as professors, to teach the ystem he has 
been perfecting these five years. Thence I go to the 
south, perhaps to Sicily insthe winter, and in the spring to 
the United States. Mr. Robert Owen, of New Lanark, has 
just decided to make the United States the field of his future 
experiments on the facility, utility, satisfaction, self appro- 
bation, and pleasure of rendering the great mass of se i 
ous and productive classes prudent, happy, and w He 
has purchased all the lands upon the Wabash, belonging to 
the Harmonists, with all the improvements, and goes saan 
to arrange his plans of procuring the greatest sum of ha 
ness to the greatest number. His liberal. philanthropic sates 
tions cannot fail to interest all true friends of humanity, who 
must join in sincere good wishes for his success. 
I have sent the last volume of the Wernerian Society, 
and the first three Numbers ofthe Westminster Review, which, 
thinking it the best and the only one capable of doing jus- 
tice to our country, I subscribe for, to be sent regularly to 
the Society. and shall likewise send any of the transactions of 
the Geological Society that may have been published since 
you got the last. I remain yours sincere ca 
WM. MACLURE, 
London, ‘om Sent 1824, 
Professor SrrL1M An, 
“Yale College, New-Haven. 
Regge ect History Society at ve MS of 
improvement in the British European Doma 
Dear Sir, 
[ wrote you from Dublin, by the Dublin packet, and pro- 
mised to send the Geological Society a pillar of articulated 
Basalt, from the Giant’s Causeway, but was prevented by a 
prohibition by two of the parties — a Bishop, who pretend- 
Vor. IX.—No. 
