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fatiguing task of readers, to turn over 1000 pages in 

 search of the lines of common sense that might be conained in 

 a few pages, when all that is useless, mysterious, or incom- 

 prehensible, was abstracted. I am convinced that, notwith- 

 standing my period of life, I can begin such a manufactory, 

 thoroughly persuaded that the geometrical progression of im- 

 provement and civilization will support and continue it — it is 

 a distillation to extract the essence of all books, printing them 

 in the most economical manner, and in such forms and bulk 

 «s to suit the pecuniary powers of the poorest, which I cal- 

 culate might easily be done at an hundredth part of the 

 present prices, and with the contemplated improvements of 

 the Steam Engine, and making paper with straw by a short 

 and easy process, as is now in embryo in this country, may 

 perhaps be reduced to a thousandth part of the present 

 expense. 



Mr. , himself a brilliant specimen of the success 



of the Pestalozzian system, is now here. The discovery of 

 the Glueine in the cymophane, and of Fluoric acid in the 

 condrodite, after it had escaped the notice of the first 

 European analysts, astonishes the scientific world on this 

 side of the Atlantic, and it is the nature of the system to put 

 the pupils on the direct road to every species of knowledge, 

 strewing it with flowers, and creating new pleasures at every 

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