4 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



mory and the judgment, creates, produces, or 

 , ither new truths, or undifcovered 

 combinations, or brilliant comparifons, and ftrik- 

 ing images. This appears to us to be the na- 

 tural progrtfs of the faculties of the human 

 mind, and by this progrefs man is conducted in 

 the career of his ftudies. He Ihould begin, irt 

 his early days, to apply to thofe fciences that ex- 

 erciie the memory , proceed to the forming of 

 the difcerning faculty ; then elevate his mind 

 to thole fuperior fciences that occupy the judg- 

 mentj and at length launch forth into the 

 fublime regions of the polite arts , which are 

 the produce of a well flored memory, an en- 

 lightened judgment, and a fruitful genius. 



IV. The peculiar employment of childhood 

 Ihould be the learning of languages : for they 

 are the inftruments with which his mind is to 

 work. To the beginning of youth, mould be 

 given a rough draft of the principal fciences of 

 the memory, fuch as contains only facts, dates, 

 and axioms : a (ketch, for example, of hiftory, 

 a kind of gazette of fimple events, without in- 

 ferences or reflections, moral or political, with- 

 out characters, and without ornaments. In the 

 dawn of manhood, while the young itudent is 

 preparing for the univerfity, he mould make 

 himielf a thorough mailer of logic, or the art 

 of reafoning : he Ihould then likewile acquire 

 fome tincture of the philofophic fciences ; and 

 make a fccond, more comprehenfive, and more 



rational 



