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e and gnitifieation of under- atanding what they are about: and of doing their part to improve, and simplify, and perfect the arts of life ; nor do i object that they should know the 3<< 2 02t ein-CATiO!f. f/3lfr. be&riagAAmi relatioas of ana department of human iindusitry upoD another, to tW eni) they iimy not lieg^nerate into pieces of mechanism : atid ihun is 'llie lime aod place for Kbools of mecbaDic^, to iConnect art vr\ih science, and arlizans with scicn- 'tificmen: which inslitutions being grafted upon the stock of a wc)l*educated and ingenmia people, and kept in Iheir pro|icr place, wotdd bave xhe satn^: effect in Jtcieuiific, muntj&ctunug, and mechanical society ubich the sympathy of nobles with pcntlcmen, of gentlemen with yeo- manry* and of yeomanry with peasantry hath in politital life. These mechanical instructiooa part of a young nuni ^ a|]|ii4;iiltceKUJp, and kuld come in when he hath lcf\ tlm schuol and ontered to the shop* and b^^in to take tbougbt concerning hiB future livelihood^ and the means of bis sustenance. Hut thf: school of education is for a higher and more liberal tuition, Qot to educate the craftsman, but to educate the man; not to train for ihJst or that office in the commonwealth, but for all offices; not to be lakcn up with that frhich is pecuhar, but with that which is univeraai. It ought, therefore, to contemplate the coinmoQ conditions of men, and to prepare them for fulfill- ing these. This ie its lirst care, which having well dischargcd^if there bo timeand leisure fur particular and individual Uiing^, then can there be tw harm En attending to these also; but not by any meant at the expense and to the sacndce of Uic comi and catholic. Now, furasmuch tin leitera are the great coo- 'trivance by which men have chosen to expreta their thoughts and feelings, and by which God baih made to man the revelation of his being h] OV CDUCJLTIOK. 913 aod will; it is surely first ol' all necessary that T«adiDg should be given ia all, aa the key by vhich they iire to open to them^elve^ the know- l«dj^ of tbat which is recorded concerning the past, and revealed concerning the future. And to the end that this j^ncration may be able to record unto the generations to come, what hath occurred I'^jn Its clays, nnd tl^t each man m^y be ab)c to record the series of his own impTesaions and feel- *ings, or communicate them lo whcm he plea^etb, »o tltat the intercourse and communion of life may be preaerred, there ought to be added next to the faculty of reading the thoughts of others,