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the way to a practical judgmect cancen^in^ that kind of education which now «:Lj&£:eth tbe uoifersal atteDUoa of the people. In handling this the second bead of our di^course^ I have an eye chiefiy to those iarentions aod practices of QBf EDl/CATIOK. educ&ti<^n whicli have i^rou-n up vriih liic Imt half century; aud which prolc^s to follow koow^ ledge on iti owd account, witfioat re»;>ect to any particular creed of religion or system of mi>nil». At tliG hcjul ofwbicli 1 m>y place otir meclianical schools, gt)d the univemty which it U |>fX){>osed to found ia the iiicrtropoUs. I confeds, however tUi- beral and irrelij^ioas 1 may be thoui^ht, my ob* scrvftiioua will apply very hirgely alft> to those systems of cducatioQ which admit the Bible, but exehiile e^ery creetl, and prevent unyelFecLive ex* position or ;ip;]ltcatio» of the Intths of the Bible; which build chiefly upon the acquisiiiona of reading, writto^, sickI accoutits; and adopt the Bible und Ic^^iwns from the Bible as the least ex- ceptionable clona-book for learning to reaul upon. And white I include thc«c mcdfrrn iiKlitution^, of which the hM% in knowledge and artii on their own account, 1 exclude all the ancient institutiooa, from the parish schools of Scotlaod up to the oai< versittesof England, wliich have relii^ion for their foundatioOtandarcaait^ere a porch to the church. Our Dotion of human nalure^ a» eitpEained abor^i U. that it it fashioned and furnished for more ex- cellent purpoiies than to turn the ctod, or handle iiiachinrs, to transport ihe produce of the eHrib from place to place, or work in mices of f;old and silver ; or to cat* drink, and make merry, over the indulgences which are by these means proeuied. And. therefore, tho»e systems of education whose chief aim it is to teach ihc nature ofihe phy^ieal productions of the earth, and the mechanical arts by which they are to be transparte<i from place lo place, and the chemical arts by which their forma and properties are chaugcd, and the science of au bandy-wofic to the 9m wm BO svfiteiDfi a( education t c«aU persuade myself that the apinmlH, head labourer of the earth, 1 c&d 8e« a great M tteM physical sciences, to cnabin » iimMlf with leM brutal laboiir, to 1^ have more leisure upoti his hands nobler occupations; and in this re- IfKatty admire them^ as having bowed the ttfok of the elements to the spirit of man, him that power over creation with |w> was endowed at fir^t. Hut if he is to taogbt in lii« yoiilb iio higher occupation than no godlike recreation of bis aoul, no spiritual in