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Journal de l'lnstruction Publique," and the " Lower Canada Journal of Education." 

 will be enable J to accomplish the all important mission confided to them. 



That mission, difficult in any country, is rendered more so in ours, by the com- 

 plications which difference of language, origin and creed, bring with them in every 

 public undertaking. These, however, we hope not only to surmount, but we are 

 sanguine enough to see in them if propsrly attended to, new elements of success. 

 Amidst the furious struggles of the political world, all sections of the population 

 require a neutral ground where they can meet for one common object, with one 

 common accord. This can no where be found but in education, in science, and in 

 literature, and presents little difficulty with U3 in Lower Canada, from the fact, that 

 through mutual foibearance, education has never been the cause of either political 

 or religious dissension. 



It will be one of our chief objects to make each section of the population better 

 known to the other, and to spread useful information through the means of each of 

 these journal*, on the educational progress not only of its own class of readers but 

 equally of those of the other. Having at our di-posal a large supply of English 

 and of French newspapers and periodicals, a3 well from the old world as from our 

 own continent, we shall be enabled, with the aid of appropriate translations to 

 offer to the readers of each of our papers, matter that is not generally within their 

 reach. We will endeavour from these sources to diversify the columns of both 

 publications and render them entertaining to all ; and we may add, that to our 

 knowledge, a great number of families who are acquainted with the two languages 

 will become subscribers to both. This fact will of course increase our responsi- 

 bility and stimulate our exertions in relation to each of the two journals. 



Under two different names, clothed in two different languages, but both harbin- 

 gers of peace, both advocates of the same cause, we send forth these two papers, 

 and with care, with fondness, with anxiety alike for both, for both we ask — and to 

 both, we trust the public will say — success. 



To this desire we heartily respond. Education universally diffused 

 among the people of Canada is an indispensable element to its true 

 progress ; and the rapid advances we are now making in agricultural 

 and commercial prosperity, render such not less, but more indispen- 

 sable, if we would not sink into mere trading and labouring drudges 

 with no higher ambition or nobler aim in life than that of Bunyan'a 

 " Man of this World," shown to Christiana and the boys in the 

 41 Significant Rooms" of the Interpreter's House. The quaint fancy 

 of the glorious old Dreamer's parable is replete with lessons for all 

 of us in these days and this land, where the one object of life so often 

 seems the mere haste to get riches. " The Interpreter takes them 

 apart, and leads them into a room where was a man that could look 

 no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand ; there stood 

 one also over his head with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered 

 him that crown for his muck-rake : but the man did neither look up 

 nor regard, but rake to himself the straws, the small sticks, and dust 

 of the floor." 



Some such significance both the Educational Journals of Lower 



