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also seems to have raised the public estimation of the 

 value of good learning. Our district, for the last 

 year, has paid twice as much per scholar, for instruc- 

 tion, as was paid five years ago, and more than twice 

 as much as the average in the State. Besides, very 

 liberal donations of piano, carpets, paintings, statu- 

 ary and other ornaments for the school-rooms, have 

 been made by citizens, to supply the place of those 

 previously furnished gratuitously, by teachers. 



It is thought that chemical and philosophical appa- 

 ratus, cabinets of minerals, and other specimens for 

 illustration of natural history will soon be purchased 

 so that the sciences of nature, which, if rightly 

 taught, constitute the central star in education, may 

 be taught in our public schools. I have such articles, 

 sufficient to illustrate most facts of science, including 

 many valuable reference books and charts, which I 

 have used during my teaching in Milford, and I 

 hereby offer the district the free use of them, such 

 as they are, during my absence in foreign countries. 



The natural sciences all culminate in the science of 

 human nature ; and are to be learned as a key to 

 that highest order of truth — the laws of the human 

 mind. Knowledge of moral law is the highest knowl- 

 edge within the reach of man. Its real possession 

 constitutes the highest order of greatness. Galileo 

 and Newton possessed almost intuitive mathematical 



