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guide us in regard to the order iu which the different branches of study ought 

 to be taken uj) : — 



1. Those studies which are most difficult, either from their nature or by 

 reason of the complexity of their objects, ought to be reserved to the last. 



2. The natural progress of development observed by the mental faculties 

 themselves, ought to be folloAved as far as possible. 



As a general rule, then, languages would come first in ordei*, then sciences 

 of observation (or natural history in its various branches) ; next the material 

 sciences of induction and deduction, or those sciences which examine the 

 changes which take place in material bodies, and the forces by which those are 

 produced, such as the departments of natural philosophy and chemistry. At 

 the same time, mathematics, or the science of abstract number and quantity, 

 ought to be pursued. 



Thereafter would come mental and moral science, and lastly social science 

 in its two great departments of history and political economy. 



According to these views the staff of professors in each college, which 

 attempted to give a complete scheme of education, would take up the following 

 subjects in their order : — 



I. The history and languages of Greece and Rome. 



II. Languages and universal grammar. 



Under these two heads it is almost needless to say that a very great 

 variety would be afforded both as to subjects and mode of treatment. Along 

 with a general and rapid view of the whole field, special authors would be 

 selected in the first case, and special languages or families of languages in the 

 second. 



III. Natural history, in its various branches of mineralogy, geology, 

 hydrology, meteorology, botany, and zoology. 



IV. Mathematics. 



V. Natural philosophy and chemistry, including under the first term 

 somatology, or the doctrine of the general properties of bodies ; mechanical 

 philosophy, or the dynamics and statics of solid, liquid, and gaseous bodies ; 

 electricity and magnetism, optics, astronomy. 



VI. Mental and moral philosophy, or psychology and ethics. 



VII. English language and literature. 



VIII. Logic and rhetoric. 



IX. Sociology, in the historic and dogmatic form, that is, as modern 

 history and political economy, and jurisprudence. (Hallam, Mill, Austin). 



It will be observed that according to this arrangement we have the 

 various branches of study set in distinct groups, and according to a definite, 

 and, it would seem, a natural plan. 



"We take first of all languages, the great instruments of thought. Then 

 we turn to physical science and mathematics, in their several divisions, when 

 the mind is exercised and assisted by the sensible forms or representations of 

 things. 



Thereafter the mind is directed to a much higher, but much more difficult 

 study, the study of its own faculties and laws. 



Following these come what may be termed the pi-actical application and 

 realization of the principles hitherto acquired, in a consideration of the English 

 language and literature, the methods of reasoning and persuasion, and the 

 historical and formal discussion of the great problems of life. 



The question which naturally suggests itself on review of these depart- 

 ments of study is, " How far, and to what extent, may we contemplate the 

 establishment of such a number of professorships, as might, even in a few 

 years, afford to the youth of this province the advantages of, at least, a portion 

 of this course]" It is very evident that, in time, the number of these 



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