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prosperity of social order, and the foundation of general 
happiness Lancasterian schools are spreading fast over the 
whole country, and improving by the grafting of a great many 
of the practical rules of the Pestalozzian system, intro- 
ducing by little and little to a more direct and shorter road to 
useful knowledge than has as yet been taken by the old 
systems, making utility the scale by which to measure the 
value of all things.—I remain, yours sincerely, 
. MACLURE, 
Professor SiLLIMAN, Belfast, 18th July, 1824. 
Yale College, Connecticut. t 
Mr. Phiquepal and the Pestalozzian system. 
Paris, November 9, 1824. 
Mr. Phiquepal sailed from Havre a few days ago for New- 
York in the ship Cadmus, Capt. Allyn, and carried with him 
about fifty packages of prints, instruments, books. &c. &c. 
necessary to the most easy and rapid development of the fac- 
ulties, and giving correct ideas to children in the improved 
Pestalozzian system, without fatiguing their attention or bur- 
thening their memories—a little sketch of which I gave you in 
some of my former letters ; and Mr. Phiquepal has a short 
epitome of the method which I drew up for some of my Euro- 
pean friends, which he intends to take off lithographically, as 
all the oe understand that excellent medium of communica- 
gion, and politics, and which as yet have been one of a 
greatest bars to the progress of our ecole iiientiols will n 
as far as education is in question, be aided by our Ginitative 
propensity ea joined to the great change in public opinion 
with us, and the progress already made, with the brilliancy of 
some of the specimens already exhibited, warrants the expec- 
tation that signed trusting to the weight and influence of 
its own merits, wil enabled to walk alone, when in future, 
all artificial aid in "nection will ten more ¥ reieh 
than advance its natural improvemen I have long 
thought of the superabundant verbiage of hubleg and the 
