ON SCHOOLS, &c. 40) 



dence. Emulation, that ftrong impulfe in the 

 career of all our purfuits, Ihoulci conftantly at- 

 tend the man of letters from his earlv youth to 

 the laft period of his life-, in the Ichool, at 

 college, at the univerfity, in thole employments 

 to which his krx)wledge may lead him, or iu thole 

 academics of fcience to which he may be admit- 

 EmulrtCion is an ani.^ faculty that 



refults from fociety : and few there are to whom 

 nature has given a genius fufficiently ftrong to 

 attain an extenfive erudition in Solitude -, who 

 are provided witli wings that can bear them, 

 without guides, without models, without com- 

 panions or fupports, to the lofty regions of the 

 empyrean. 



II. 7 hj rnoft ftgacious and moft benign kf- 

 giflators have therefore eftablilhed in their do- 

 minions, fchools for the arts and fciences, aC*fe- 

 ittfes, porticoes, Lyceums, another Athens , and 

 judicioully adapting inftruftion to the age and 

 faculties of mankind, they have founded 

 foefct inftitutions for this grand defign. But 

 e from thefe venerable, thefe facred abodes, 

 where the mind is invigorated and enriched, 

 where the heart is puriricd and formed to bene- 

 voknce, where ibcial man is prepared for thofe 

 ; to which he appears to have been 

 irttd by his Creator, is enabled to render 

 nature i !e rude and barren, polifhed, 



rcfn, 1 improved to the greateft degree 



pofffble f far from thefe fonduaries be all dc- 



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