6 Josiah Wedgwood 



CHAP. I 



was confined to the usual routine of a country school, 

 where he learnt no language but his own, and that 

 imperfectly. Although deprived of the advantage of a 

 liberal education, by diligence and perseverance he found 

 his own way to useful knowledge and the rightful 

 application of it. 



Mr. Leslie records that Josiah himself attributed 

 much of his success in after life to the opportunity 

 which was given him during a long illness, to repair, by 

 reading, the deficiencies of his mental training. His 

 anxiety to accomplish this end as he grew up, and 

 also the urgent way in which he advised his children 

 to gain all the knowledge they could in their early life, 

 show how keenly he felt the disadvantages from which 

 he himself had suffered. 



The manner in which Josiah accomplished not 

 only his own but his children's education, will be found 

 set forth in the following chapters. 



