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and Private Considerations of those that seek the 

 Advancement of Learning in these Nations. By 

 Samuel Hartlib, Esq. — London, Printed by R. 

 and W. Leybourn for the Common-wealth of 

 Learning, mdcliv. 



A quarto of 52 pages^ dedicated "To the Right 

 Honourable Francis Rous, Esquire; Speaker of the 

 Parliament of the Common-wealth of England/' He 

 observes : — " In the Sphere wherein I have walked, my 

 Aime hath been rather to take away the Difficulties 

 then to lay them open, rather to suggest a Remedie 

 then to discourse of the Diseases ; for there is no end 

 of Complaints on all hands, seeing each Party doth lay 

 open the others faults ; and few or none tell us, how 

 they ought to be mended.^' Speaking of '* Education, 

 and the Reformation of Schools,^^ he says : " My 

 honoured Friend Mr. John Amos Comenius, and some 

 other Fellow-labours and Correspondents in this Work 

 with my self, have studied to make as little alteration 

 as could be, seeking onely the best Advantages which 

 upon the Ordinary Foundations of School-teaching 

 could be introduced : and in this Endeavour for a great 

 many years we have continued, and many wayes at- 

 tempts have been made to facilitate the course of 

 Universall Learning, and especially the teaching of 

 Learned Tongues.^'' Adding, '"'■ And because it is no 

 small difficultie and hazard to venture upon the contra- 

 dicting of a Custome so universally received, as is the 



