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and in tbe great body of oar common scboob ; — J see not how jn this land, moraU can be taught apart Irom Cbnstianity, founded upon classical tnidition»> or modem infidel doctrines, without distracting ihc very vitals of Uie Isind, and learing to pteceft that constitution of society which hath shown ]U soundness by weathering tbe ctonnt which have strewed the world with the wrecks of other states. But on whatever founded, a system of moral duties of some kind ought to be exhibited and enforced jn e\ery lichoo), ebe willthat second part of human uature which h the bond and blessing of society, be lefl dormant as well as the first, and nothing be cultivated of the noble being of man. &arc those lowest and meanest powers whereby he converseth with the properliea of matter, or with the brutes that|>erish. The common answer which is given to such an analy&Lsof tbe powers of mauasis ^[tven above, and to our definition of education thence derived* is an impatient and violent assertion that knowledge can at all events do a man no hurt, and will only bring him Mi much the nearer lo morals und to rc'ligion : whence they blindly conclude, that, give the people knowledge of any kind whatever, you way leave the i«suc to God and a good conscience. To this fallacy it scemcth to me, thai our intel- lectual divines have given great encouragement by t&lking ax if religion would come of course from llie knowledge of the Bible. ' Give U£ the Bible; and it will do its own work/ is the watchword <^ I I-T OV EDUCATJO}'. 70S e religious ;— as if the book were God, and to fcad were the whole IV«ichon of a ^nul ; a.* if Ciod Aad conceiil rated hinwelf in a book, and left the eld of operatiofi wholly in its hand. This gro:^^ >rtor on the (^art of ihc religious, liaih i;iveii such cncourapein^m to the liberal part of the nation^ thai they £pcak of it &3 a thing never to be doubted, at kiiowledjjcof any kird must be favourable to gion, muHt bring the people a s^lep nt^aNT to and make them a degree more apt to tbtf tton of the Holy Spirit ro much the more ust worthy, so much the more obedient to law and government. And if you begin to interpose any conditions concerning the subject of the in- struction, and the materiaU of the knowledge, they snuff at it as ibe most intolerable bigotry, or the ino«t unaccountable blir)dnes« : agiiinsL -which I solemnly protest^ aa a most grofis error and dangercius fallacy, and take leave to state my broad and firm conviction, that the natural mind in a Atate of grossest