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that we may become good judges of the way id which it ir to be cdu* [iduct£d, and so fulfil to God^ und to our country, and to the rising generation, the i^reat trust from vrhich no man is exempt in one form or another, Lwhctkcrof dutyorof chanty; it i& most necc&sary jtthat we should have a jii»t idea of that which is ineluded iindi-r ihewcrd BilucAtioti: tu which idea ^ull our plans should be shaped, and M the dt^taila of our plajis be eub^rvieut. Now, it seemeth tto me, that the true idea of education is con- ■tained in the word itiicif, which signifies the act [|0f drawing out, or educing; aud being applied a general sense to man, must signify the drawing forth or bringing nut those powers xWhich are implanted in him by the hand of his J4aker. This, therefore, we must adopt as the idimcnta) idea of education; that it aims to do [/or man that which the agriculturist docs for the FrnitK of the enrth, and the gardener for the more ;hiuce aud beautiful prod uclii ink thereof; what \e forester doe* for the trees of the forest, and ke tamer and breaker in of animals doei« fnr the several kind^ of wild creatures; this same office ^p 780 OW EDUCATJOh- [Dk, a higher kind, according to the higher dignity of the subject, doth education propoM to do for the ofTHpring of man, who ia to be the possesiior of the earth, and the enjoyer of its beautiful and fhigrant fruits, the monarch of all the creatures, the possesMrof knowledge, the subject of lawv, and the worshipper of God. And that eystcm of education alone can be regarded as liberal and enlarged, aa complete and catholic, which take« into the compuss of its view all the powers and capacitiej* which are given to man, »ii<1 capable of being educed or brought forth by good and skilful husbandry. It is ncce?isnry therefore to consider and clnssify those powers M-hich are given to human nature; those original capacities of the ftoul of man, which all poBse?>i«, though in different degrees ; the universal and catholic attributes of humanity, without which men were not to bo regarded ae m^n, nor allowed to carry on in the midst of men the vocations of human life. These capnciticft ^eem to be three- fold, rising in the scale of dignity above one anoiher. The fimt is, the capacity of knowing and under* standing the pro pertitts of those things which wea^ee and handle and taste, and in the mid^iorivhieh we are to pass our life : that is, the knowledge of nature as it is submitted to our five senses, andean bedia- covcred.exatnioed.anddiscourf