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fatiguing task of readers, to turn over 1000 pages in 
search of the lines of common sense that might be -onained in 
a few pages, when all that is useless, mysterious, or incom- 
prehensible, was abstracted. 1am convinced that, notwith- 
standing my period of life, I can begin such a manufactory, 
thoroughly persuaded that the geometrical progression of im- 
provement and civilization will support and continue it—it is 
a distillation to extract the essence of ail books, printing them 
in the most economical manner, and in such forms and bul 
as to suit the pecuniary powers of the poorest, which I cal- 
culate might easily be done at an hundredth part of the 
present prices, and with the contemplated improvements of 
the Steam Engine, and making paper with straw by a short 
and easy process, as is now in embryo in this country, may 
perhaps be reduced to a thousandth part of the present 
expense. 
Mr. ———,, himself a brilliant specimen of the success 
of the Pestalozzian system, is now here. The discovery of 
the Glueine in the cymophane, and of Fluoric acid in the 
condrodite, after it had escaped the notice of the first 
European analysts, astonishes the scientific world on this 
of the Atlantic, and it is the nature of the system to put 
the pupils on the direct road to every species of knowledge, 
ake Oe it with flowers, and creating new pleasures at every 
step. — 
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