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meea; and, if what he is taught of intellect be Ihuft bound down, like Prometheus, to the barren 4«Tth. Ihen have we an education which, however fplvnHKl in its apparatus, however imposing in iis MCpv^riments. however fruitful in riches, and all which richer can command, is j»oor and meagre, low. menn, and earthly, altof^eiber insufficient to flntiAl'yman'se&tatc; whichdoth buthariicss him for his work, which doth but enslave andcnserfhimto the Miil, but givelli to hira no tokens, no hint nor tntimalion, of his rcuKonable being; for 1 call not Ihat reason whidi labours in the clay; it is but the instinct of the noble animal, and not the reuon of the aptrilual being* Such education will dc* press a people out of manliness, outot liberty, out of poetry, and religion, and whatever eUt- htith been (he crown of glorj' around the brows of mankind. Vet mark, that oven to thifi the lowest form lhi« school— ^tlic education of the instincts of man. I.] OV ROUCATIOW* &1I which teacbetli bim to till, and sow, and reap» and gather into b&ros; to exchange, and truck, and traffic, and make gain — 1 yield it» proper value when 1 say, it is to Die end of making If's.i botlily bondage and earthly calculation necessary to win ■our bread, and leave the better pavt of our being diseni^acTcd Tor other employments. But fur what employments disengaged? Thia is the question youanawcrnot in your mechanical schools; which is their porcrty and barreanci>5. Vou did not surely mean that your men sIriiiIJ alwaya labour, and sleep, and labour. That is not your coitsuni- tnation of humanity : is it? If it be, you are fit i4o be the instructors of Russian serfs, or West- Indian slaves; but not ol^ men who know of old and hare it written in the chronicles of their fa- thers, Uiat tlicy u'«rc born for the hit^ht-st functions of free-born men; yea, and to aspire unto the simi- litude of God, and live with God and Chmt upon tbe earth, and live witli them for ever in the world to come. This is the quintcssc^ncc of acctariauuim, 'And yet 1 believe it is the only notion which nine 'itentba of tho-ie calling themaehrea liberal have l^onceming education. Nevertheless, there is every 'advantage when the lime comeih for the youth to 'go their several vrays, and addrcbs themselves to leir several occnpaliona and handicrafts in bfe :that they should then be instructc^d not in the rou* ouatomsand blind precepts of their trades and rioDS, but be well grounded in the principles thereof and see them in their elements, that they may have the pleasur