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to me that almost erery thing payeth court and defer- ence. To this new influerKe I attribute the ap- |iarently improved policy of states, and character of men, the oulwanl civility of manners, the 7M OK CDUCAllOtl. [ft*. itentatioD of liberal opinionft, the prcrentioD of iiiy atrocioiiH actiann, and tlie conc^inent of ir«; seeini^ iliK in l\\e powcrofauy one vt'htycn.u indilc a lciici% or coDvcy a piece of intelligence, to subroit the unpopular act in one day to a jory of several thousands; after which, without any ;.care of hi^, it will be submitted to s juryof nevcml Lillions ; an ordeal of censtire which tio man liketh ibU best, much less bis worst, deed& to undergo. This capacity cf reading and writing hath given to common sense ft local habitation and a name, a unity and a stren^h, which hardly any thing ran defy. The common it buildeth up to heaveo ; ^thc pernonal it strcwi-tli upon the earth. It is the ippeal to the multitude, the ostracism of the p<hiple. .nd, if the voice of the people he the voice of (Jod, il is a most godly power ; but if the voice of the people be against the voice of God, then every godly thing should look to il and have a care of itself. But, however intcresUng, it would bcawayA^m rthe jniriKrte of our present meeting, and inconsist- 'ent wiih the Kscredne&sof ihismy office, to enter into the uffL-ci* which the universal education of the people is likely to produce upon the political OODdition of men; yet is it my duty, and shall be my endeavour, to open before you at this ume, what effect that kind of education now so rapidly rdiflTuaiug itself throughout the land may be ex- acted to produce upon the proftperity of vital iTcligion, aiHl what part for or against the interests W /iOQ it is likely to accomplish* This I shall do ly treating. First* of education in general; what it should include, and what it should aim at ; ^*6econdly. from the idea of education thus ob- lined, endeavour to form an rMimate of that kind OH EDUCAT10V. 7Bd rdC it wliicti ia so rapidly diffasiog itself : Thirdly, inquire witbwbom this great charge of educatiag the risiaf generaticm should be catruated : and lastly, addresii myself to ple&d the c&iue'of that society for which we aic Hfi&4finbled. And may God be my instructor, whilo I do my endeatour to open the subject of inatructioD to so upsiiy wise id reverend men as are now before me. I. Id order that we may hghtly conduct the edu* catMQ of youth, whether in familiea or in schools, [..in private or in public ; and