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ification which hath been given abovc> of Ihc capacities of our nature^ and the order of their rcspectiTe dignity, if it shoidd Ike fouml not to have rec^eived the common consent of men. ^r bo ntjl embodied in their practice, and required by their institutions. But when I SCO that in every well-ordered family, the first lesson of a mother to her children is of Ctod and of conscience, of religion and of duty, and that almost all achoola, academieti, and univer- uties of any standing, have beretofort] generally 700 OK LDUCATION. [Du. arisen out of religioD, and been bo ordered «s to caltivate both the knowledge and the pr:ictice of religion; dud that in all wcU-coQstituted Btatcfi, religion bath had the firH place and highest re- vcreDce, orders of men being net apart to teach it ft8 the jifinci]>le nf actiim, the root and stem of manly character; aud that, in the forms of our country, thereon rest the sanction of an oath, the sacred ncfis of a covenant, the forms of law, the very forms of merchandize, the holy bond of matrimony^ the quililication for an office, and erery thing, in abort, which c^^nstitutes the nerve and sinew of the state; 1 must not only keep the place which I have taken for religion, above every other capacity of man, but call upon him who disputca it, to enter into controversy with the universal judgment of those chosen men, who have Mamjked the image of tlieir mind iipuii the face of law, and the constitutions of cinl life. And that the moral duties of man to man, come second in order, and rise far above the knowledge and majiagcmcnt of the material world, who will dispute that comprehendeth ought of his own» of his neighbours, or the common weal, which are not built up, as they fondly imagine, by contributions of physical science, and skill in arts, but by domestic and homely virtues, by female chastity and grace, by manly wisdom and virtue, by the good and wholesome admmistra- U tion of Inws, by moderation and disinterested- I ness in those who govern, by industry, freedom, I and loyalty in those who are governed, and by I the other forms of mora! character, whereof it I would be endless to speak particularly, Wc live f indeed, in a time when the physical sciences have I.] OK EDUCATION. almost stormed the strong^holds of morality and religion; but I trust in God, though at dmes f fear, that hiH blefiftingiipon the anciput bulwarks of our diarchy and our polity, will preserve ihcm against the bravadoes of physical knowledge, and the rude attacks of physical force. But