ON THE GENERAL DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE. 



fiction of the utility and importance of a general 

 diffusion of knowledge be impressed upon the 

 minds of the more intelligent and influential 

 classes of society, and that every exertion and 

 every appropriate mean should be used to ac 

 complish this desirable object. In accordance 

 with this idea, I shall endeavour, in the follow 

 ing work, 



I. To illustrate the advantages which would 

 flow from a general diffusion of useful know 



ledge among all ranks, and shall afterward* 

 follow out the investigation, by 



II. An inquiry into the means requisite to 

 be used in order to accomplish this important 

 object.* 



As a particular illustration of the means by 

 which a general diffusion of knowledge might be 

 effected would render the present work too bulky, 

 this department of the subject will be prosecuted 

 in a separate volume. 



