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tcdof byour under*- standing, whieh judgeth by the sense, and Inkelh means to an end. The second is, the capacity of knowing and understanding our own selves, of judging amongst, and rightly regulating, those thoughts and emotions of the soul which command the actions of the body, direct the observatHms of the »ense*^ instruct the undor^andiiig tolabourin I.] Qpr BDUCATION. 787 this or thftl province of outward nature ; the capa- city which naitefit Lit m (aniUieA, infrieadshiiJAi, and in «ocietie)ij eiiacU laws and Turms of guvi:n]mcnt, submits to them when they are enacted; and, in short, produces all that inward activity of spirit, and outward coadition of life, which distinguishes man from the lower creatures. The third is, the power of knowing, and worshipping, and obeying the true God ; which, though it be a faculty lo&t and hidden in man by the Fall, ti. now renewed in him by the word and Spirit of God, whereof as* surancc is given to all who believe the Oospcl, by the blessed sacrament of tiaptJJtm, which declares* not by wordft but by signs, that from the earliest hour of life, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost implant the lost capacity of divine and spiritual life, which thenceforth education may consider as the third and noblcgt province of her kingdom. Now, that edocation is liberaL catholic, and complete, which embraceth this Uireefold capacity of human nature^ and ordertth itself in such wt?>e a-s to ^ive to each iu proper place in the scale of dignity ; and that a^ain is narrow and sectarian, and hurtful, which embraceth only a part, or disordcreth the relative dignity and subsiTvieiicy of the several parts. Two questions may here be started, whether man hath these three capacities of physical, moral, and religious education, and whether this is the proper order of their dignity- Nor, ia it to be expected that wc should have a universal consent npon this subject, seeing there be some wretclies who leach that m»n diflcrelh only from ihi; brutes in having a better constitution of senses, and who rectal) his moral and r^igiousdifilinctions, as tM OK EDUCATION. [IXm, the imaginatioa of the superstitious, or the de* €pt»oa& of tbc concUDg. But, ficlttDi; these aside, «ho arc generally of such a degraded type of Enaii, DOt iftorthy to be heard in any court boldco pan man's proper digtuty, we have, for the proof tif Uit« «ec(md diviKiuii uf iimu'fi rapacities, the feniversal coofeDl of all thi; wise and virtuous, ho have held nelf-krwwledge far more iEoportaoit an natural knowledge, and self-