Scientific Education 



listen to the measured judgment of Dr 

 Johnson, whose authority on such a matter 

 no man, whose mind is not unhinged with 

 vanity, may disdain. 



"The truth is," l says he, u that the know- 

 ledge of external nature, and of the 

 sciences which that knowledge requires or 

 includes is not the great or the frequent 

 business of the mind. 



" Whether we provide for action or conver- 

 sation, whether we wish to be useful or 

 pleasing, the first requisite is the religious 

 and moral knowledge of right or wrong ; the 

 next is an acquaintance with the history of 

 mankind, and with these examples which may 

 be said to embody truth, and prove by events 

 the reasonableness of opinions. 



"Prudence and Justice are virtues, and 

 excellencies of all times and of all places ; we 



1 Johnson's " Lives of the Poets." ist detached edition. 

 I7 8i. Vol. I., pp. 143-4. 



