ia in Epitome of the Improved 
proceeding from the most simple to the most compound, 
irom the easiest to the most difficult, from the known to the 
unknown, and preferring the useful to the ornamental, 
making at the same time the application of all the necessary 
arts and occupations, that their utility may not be lost sight 
of for a moment. 
One of the advantages attached ‘o the system is the facility 
of forming professors. ‘The popish attribate of infallibility 
being exploded, the master loses none of his iafluence with 
his pupils by acknowledging that he is ignorant of the subject 
in question, but will learn it along with them, according to 
system, in accomplishing which, he has only to keep one les- 
son before the class, and the boys have a better chance to 
learn that particular science or art well, than if the master 
had been an old professor; for by learning it himself so re- 
cently, he is instructed in all the difficult places, anc 1- more 
capable of teaching the children how to get over them ; an ad- 
vantage which the Lancasterian or monitorial system has over 
the old method. 
Lithography being the best, cheapest, and easiest mode 
of making accurate representations of every thing, and this 
system requiring so great a number of exact representations, 
as they are in all possible cases substituted for books or de- 
scriptions, the pupils are all taught how to design on the 
stone or cartoons and how to make the proper ink and pencils, 
as well as ali the manipulation of printing and working the 
press, &c. &c. 
The advantages of calculating in the common way of 
reckoning by eyphers is the smallest part of the great and 
beneficial mental improvement, gained by the calculation on 
memory, without the aid of any artificial figures, as it exer- 
cises, improves, and accelerates the combinations, and ren- 
ders comparison easy and accurate ; while it accustoms the 
young mind to rapid deductions, facilitates the drawing of 
just and accurate consequences, and lays the foundation for 
a quick, impartial, and logical judgement, in deciding on all 
questions of intricacy and difficulty, by furnishing to the 
mind the necessary elements to unravel the most complicated 
subjects. 
The public are now generally informed that the Pestaloz+ 
zian sysiem of education has been introduced into this coun- 
try by the public spirit and liberality of Mr. Maclure. 
