86 A TRACT OF MISCELLANIES. 



satisfactory, as to warrant me in saying, that, with 

 one hour daily during the whole of an educational 

 course, at this work of translation, young gentlemen, 

 without any further tuition, might proceed at once 

 to construct the most involved sentences, and trans- 

 late the most difficult passages of any Latin author. 

 What is true in respect to the acquisition of Latin 

 by this method must also be true in respect to the 

 acquisition of any other language by the same 

 method. 



ON SCHOOLS OF NATURAL AND SOCIAL 

 SCIENCE. 



150. Would not a great boon be accorded to the 

 nation were the State, by the extension and endow- 

 ment of Schools of Natural Science, to pervade the 

 public mind with that wholesome, and might it not 

 be said divine, knowledge, which is derived from 

 the study of that great Book that has God for its 

 Author the Book of Nature ? 



We cannot conceive that any sectarian opposition 

 would be offered to a Government Scheme of Edu- 

 cation, the object of which was to impart to all 

 classes, and to individuals of all ages, that know- 

 ledge which is derived from the study of Natural 

 and Social Science, and which is so intimately con- 



