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command fiir ore excellent than command over the mo^t hid- den secrets of the three kingdoms of nature. We have alfto the whole body of civil historyt which is 'the narrative of the moral being of man : we have tlic whole body of law, the many forms of go- ernment, the world of his imagination, the infi- ttcly tarious records of his ftrelings, his dia- ourses skilfully framed to more the feelings of Ihent, the hooks of morals aiul uf nictjipliy^sics; '4nd, in shon, every form of literature holds of mnn's moral being, save books of natural science and natural history, Mfhich. though they have made a great noise in the world of late, and in a manner deafened its ear, are to the books which record the pbenomcna of man's peculiar and moral being, as the tmall tithe of pnuUry and of garden stuffs are To the exuberance uf the whole earth, And, with respect to the reality and dignity of the third eapacityt our capacity of Divine ki>ow- ledgc, it IS real, and it is dignified, only to him who hetieveth in the revelation of God; and to him wlui believelh not, it i% but a shadow, and an ineffectual doctrine?. For the religion that is chilled natural, I consider but as a higher form of morals, and nol entitled to any aeparale consideration; but the religion which is called revealed, is no high L] OK KOUCATJOK. and noble in its begitmiDgs, so infinite in ita cods* &o real in iU <tti!covenes. so full of peace and joy and hlc!^sednf:s5. to our moral being, that to one who knows it, and believer it, it is not uecefisary to Gxalt \xs pre-eminence over the olb«?T two ; and to one who knows it not, this is not the time to enter into tiic controversy, and burdly the place, seeing 1 understand myself to be discoursing befor« the bellcvcri^ and diHci|des of the Lord Jesiis Christ, who have cnme hither to be itiKtriK-ted in bifi faith and discipline. But, a matter of tueh vast praeLical unport- nnce as education ehould not be allowed to rest upon liny individuals notion of the capacities ofj the human mind, or to be conducted according to any private judgment concermiig the end^ and objects of human life. And I reckon that the more novel and original any scheme is, which has edti- cation for it$ object, the less worthy it is of our regard* For, of a thing &o common, bo ancient, sofull of anxiety to every one, and so full likewise ofrt^flcction to every one, men must surtfly by this time have got to Icnow the 6rsl principtes, and to practi^ the best rulee. Therefore, 1 were willing to renounce both the class