v PREFACE. 



work will embrace along with a great variety of other topics an examina 

 tion of the present system of education, showing its futility and inefficiency, and 

 illustrating the principles and details of an efficient intellectual system, capable 

 of universal application ; together with a variety of suggestions in relation to 

 the physical, moral, and intellectual improvement of society. 



To his numerous correspondents who have been inquiring after the work, 

 &quot; The Scenery of the Heavens Displayed, with the view of illustrating the doctrine 

 of a Plurality of Worlds&quot; which was announced at page 88 of the &quot; Philosophy 

 of a Future State,&quot; the author begs respectfully to state, that, if health permit, 

 he intends to proceed, without delay, to the completion of that work, as soon as 

 the volume announced above is ready for the press. It will form a volume of 

 considerable size, and will be illustrated with a great number of engravings, 

 many of which will be original. 



Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, 

 18th Apil, 1833. 



