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the ■ faculty aUo of recording our own thoughts ; that 'vt, of writing. The&p are univerj^aU which ought to be taui^ht to every man, because every man, >ii-hatever hta sphere and occnpation be, bath the itkc need of them, and will derive from them much guidance and consolation of hia hfc. .And it fteema to me, tliat the poor have the most need of the oonsolation and suiilcnancc which these two arts afford; ina«m;ich a« their lifei« more burdened and pressed with incessant toil, with every thing to depress them to t^ie earth, and htite to elevate them above it. having no facility of moving to and fro, to catch the galc9 and currents of improvement, to be« hnid the vjiriou^ wtirkn uf invention, and hear tho 'fientiments which dignify the being of man. The poor who are bound to place, nnd inspbered in the narrow prejudices of place ; who have no story, but a few traditions; no wisdom, but a few pro* rerbs; no hope higher than a poor- house, in their old age ; no ambition beyond a cottage : these, I »ay, *o far from being excImU-d, have tlie be*i right lo, by having the greatest need of^ reading uimI 8M K>K £DL-CATIO!tf, [£Hi, *vritiDg; ibofte twowittWt iaveatioiiA, and greatest bcIpBoTmtii'scoiitlUiun, whert-by ibe past nmy be madetopasa orera^inb^rore thcm.andtbe future to iiBU up iQ iu gSory under their eyes ; the duUnt may be brought Dcar. the Icarocd made level to their capacitica, the ^uod introduced to their cot- tage firnides, the ^odly nado acc«s^ib1r to their MuU» and every admirable and heavenly quality which bath rooted mod seeded oti the earth, made as free and bleaacd to the cottage as it is to the palace, llic aenatc. and the university. If i might apply a i>cnpturc quotation lesa out of plare than many Scripture quolatioiu are, I would bavL- it cried from the norihrnt to the Koutlteni pole, ^d from the nsiog of the sun to the going down thereof,—" Ho, every one that ihirsteth, cone ye to the waters; and be that hath no money come buy mne and mtlk> without mooey (nd without price." But let it be recognii^d and fairly stated out, our cnlbuaia«m carry u& loo far. that reading only the key by wliich the miud of others iadia- covered to us, and wrjtiug tlic key by which our mind isdificovercd to them; and that the inter* change of mind wiUi mind, which thcso inventioos euttblt- us to carry on, moV be productive of evil as readily as of good, unless there be given there* iritb some Lriterkm to knov the good from the evil. The world of books is wide as the world of man'ji thoughta and fanc