88 A TRACT OF MISCELLANIES. 



which delivered annually, would extend the curricu- 

 lum to eight years. It would be well that, at the 

 commencement of the second curriculum, the Lec- 

 tures on Mechanical Philosophy or of any of the 

 other courses should not be delivered by the indi- 

 vidual who had lectured in the same town or dis- 

 trict eight years before on the same subject. For, 

 just as one might not be disposed to read the same 

 book twice on any one subject, but might be dis- 

 posed to read two books on the same subject by 

 two different authors, so one might not be disposed 

 to attend the same course of lectures twice when 

 delivered by the same lecturer ; but might be dis- 

 posed to attend two courses of lectures upon the 

 same subject when delivered at long intervals by 

 two different lecturers. In order to this, the lecturers 

 would require to itinerate. We do think, by this 

 arrangement and the changes which would take 

 place in the course of eight years in the various 

 sciences arising from new discoveries having been 

 made, and new views adopted in those sciences a 

 goodly attendance upon those lectures in the smaller 

 towns might be perennially maintained. 



Let the Lectureships be endowed by the State, 

 and in order to supplement the endowment, let a 

 small fee be taken. 



