166 Notice of “Plans for the Insiruetion and 
would think the scholar likely to become a profound geom- 
etrician, whose master was contented with reading demob- 
strations to him? Indeed, it is an acknowledged truth 
among teachers, that no man can do them a greater ser- 
vice, than by reducing every art and science, which the 
extending information of society from time to time de- 
mands, to be made a part of juvenile education, under the 
dominion of “ Practical Instruction.” 
‘We shall not be called upon to prove that, to give a 
knowledge of the science of morality is an excellent means 
of ensuring a correct practice of it; because, the position 
being universally allowed as respects every other depart- 
ment of human learning, we may fairly call upon the ob- 
jector to show why the analogy, which holds good in eve- 
ry other instance, should fail here. But even if the effect 
of this science on the conduct of the student were as re- 
mote as it is immediate, still, exercising his mind, and ex- 
tending his information, it would equally well deserve his 
attention, with the objects to which it is usually directed. 
“They, however, who willltake the trouble to glance over 
the history of their early years, and call to mind the perti- 
nacity with which their school-fellows screened each other 
from the most deserved punishment; and the many acts of 
oppression which remained unredressed, because the suf- 
ferers dared not to disobey the stern edict against ‘‘ bearing 
by us, lest the influence of a leading boy, which in every 
school must be considerable, should overcome the virtue 
of the jury; but our fears have been uniformly relieved, 
*Trial by Jury was established early in 1816. This chapter was writ- 
ten in November, 1818; since that time two other verdicts have been giv- 
en, in which the teachers did not concur; they were appealed against, a9 
it has been already stated, and were reversed by the committee. A remark- 
able instance of conscientious feeling was lately given by a jury who eon- 
victed a boy on a charge of prevarication ; ugh they were so 
moved Rae distress of mind which he evinced during bis trial, as to pay 
halfhis fine from their own pockets. The remainder was immediately 
aubscribed bythe spectetors. — 
