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24. ‘Vo the first skip, as aforesaid, that shall sail to 83° of 
Vorth lailtnde, 41909; to 83°, £20005 to 87°, £3000; to 
88°, 24000, and to 83°, as before allotted, the full reward of 
£5009” 
Aart. XX. —An Epitome of the Emproved Pestalozzian Sys- 
tem j Educatiox, as practised by William Phiquepad and 
Madan Fvetageat. formerly in Purts, and now in Phila- 
deiph:t; conmnunicated at ihe request of the Editor. By 
Winttam Macrure, Esq. 
Tue great and fundamental principle is, never to attempt 
to teach children what they do not comprehend, and to teach 
them in the exact ratio of their understanding it, w.thout 
omitting one link in the chain of ratiocination, proceeding 
always irom the knowa to the unknowa, from the most easy 
to the most difficult, practising the most exteasive and accu- 
rate use ofall the senses, exercising, improving, and perfecting 
all the mental and corporeal faculties by quickening combina- 
tion; accelerating and carefully arranging comparison ; judi- 
ciously and impartially making deduction; summing up the 
results free from prejudices, and cautiously avoiding the de- 
lusions of imagination, the constant source of ignorance and 
error. 
The means of effectuating the above are, first, a careful 
examination and inspection of the objects themselves, or of 
tangible and visible instruments, calculated to demonstrate 
their properties and bring them within the reach of the 
senses. If these cannot be obtained, then accurate designs, 
or representations, and books, and descriptions. although ime 
perfect substitutes, are employed; but these are not to be ree 
soricd to until every possible meaas of acquiring the first 
two has failed. 
They learn mechanism by the machines or exact models 
of them; arithmetic, by an instrument called the arith- 
mometer; geometry, by an instrament called the trigonaimcs 
ter, and another called the mathemometer, by which the 
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