THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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putations, {fill maintain their ground, yet much of induftry and 
genius are employed in the cultivation of real fcience, and the pur¬ 
suit of objedls which are of great importance and utility. 3d. That 
a very proper degree of eafe and familiarity appears to fubfifl be¬ 
tween thofe who teach and thofe who are taught; and that the 
former are ever ready and defirous of conveying information in the 
mod: perfpicuous and effectual manner to their auditors: they in¬ 
vite them to Rate their doubts and difficulties, to put queftions, 
and even to name any author they wifh to be explained, or fubjedt 
they wifh to be difcufTed.* 4th. It is peculiar, as far as I have 
been informed, to the Swedifh univerfities, to admit fencing and 
dancing into the number of the polite or liberal arts. In this the 
Swedes are in the right. Both are evidently reducible to principles 
and theory, and can therefore claim the title of art. The dignity 
of dancing, which may juffly be reckoned among the imitative 
arts, as well as mufic and painting, is very ably maintained and 
ijluflrated by the late celebrated Dr. Adam Smith, in his pofthu- 
mous EfTays on Philofophical Subjects. It is obferved by the 
Dodlor, among other particulars on this fubjedl, that the connedl- 
* In almofl all the advertifements in the annual catalogue we meet with fuch 
declarations on the part of the profeflors as thel'e : “ Privatim ea tractabit qua: 
“ ftudiis auditorum convenerint”—“ Privatam operam auditorum defideriis ac- 
“ commodabit”—“ Nec non defideriis commilitonum in cseteris ftudii hiftorici 
“ locis ut poterit, privatim fatisfaciet”—“ In explicalione facri alicujus libri 
“ hiftorici, quem adpetierint auditores, ftudiofae juventuti infervire conabitur”—• 
“ Auctorem Grascum, quern defideraverint futuri auditores, explicabit”—Chc- 
“ miam docens, defideriis hon. commilitonum, omni, qua poteft, diligentia et 
s< fidelitate, fuam accommodabit operam,” &c. &c. 
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