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_2d. To the first _ - ——— that shall sail to 83° of 
orth latitude, £1000; °, £2000; to 87°, <> 
38°, £4000, and to a9, as baie allotted, the full reward of 
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Arr. XX.-—An Epitome of the Enproved Pestalozzian Sys- 
tem of Education, as practised by William Phrquepal and 
Madam Fretageot, formerly in Paris, and now in Phila- 
delphia ; communicated at the hick hs the Editor. BY 
“Wirtiam Maczure, Esq. 
Tue great ‘aod fundamental gr is, never to attempt 
to teach children what they do not comprehend, and to teach 
them in the exact ratio of their understanding it, without 
omitting one link in the chain of ratiocination, proceeding 
always from the known to the unknown, from the most easy 
to the most difficult, practising the most extensive and accu- 
rate use ofall the senses, exercising, improving, and perfecting 
all the mental and corporeal faculties by quickening combina~ 
tion; accelerating and carefully arranging comparison ; judi- 
ciously and impartially making deduction; summing up the 
results free from prejudices, and cautiously avoiding the de- 
lusions of imagination, the constant source of ignorance and 
error, 
The means of effectuating the above are, first, a careful 
examination and inspection of the objects ganache a of 
tangible and visible instruments, calculated to dem 
their properties and bring them within the. reach "of es 
senses. If these cannot be obtained, then accurate designs, 
or representations, and books, and descriptions, although im- 
perfect substitutes, are employed ; but these are not to be re- 
soried to apt every possible means of acquiring the first 
two has fail 
They pur rn ad sida by the machines or exact models 
of them; siege by an instrument called: the arith- 
mometer; geometry, by an instrument called the trigonome- 
ter, and ete pe the nent, by which the 
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