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ies and feclinga. full of iihonx aa well aaof fcx»d and mnlicine \ whatever .h been felt of good and ill, hath been written, knd the evil hath its b)&zonin(* to the eye as well •w the g«iod, m ricli garnish and savoury odour totlie baac appetites of the mind, and ncedcth not I-J UM RDVCATlOti, 81» to bo fiought, but IB pn:«cutod before the fooo of all the people, cheapened dovin to their poverty, and presiwd upon them witb all asaiduily. There mi^ht have been heretofore a gcod principle la writiog a book, and there luif^Ut also have beea a good principle id publishing one ; but dow <;learly and confessedly gain and profit is the prtDciplc which movcth the book-taart, aa en- tirely aft any other; — especially the production of thuxe leaves which lie on uvery Uible, and are odcred to the eye in every ale-houiw of the land. .Wherefore, like putting ;l blind man into a wood Mfbere poisons grow as plcntifally as fruits, and leaving him there to feed hii body, is it to intro- duce our people to thia chaos of right and wrong, of tiutli and fal^hocid, of religion und irreligiwi, of hleiftsedne^ jnd ruiser>', of heaven and hell, without having cultivated in tb^m any principles by Nvbicb to know the evil from the good, sjmI to distinguish the wbolc&omc from the unwholesome. For, let men talk of liberality aa they please, no one i» &o wildly libcrril as to »ay tliat every thing which is written is right, and every thing which is circulated amonj^^^t the people i« good. If any man Lad the folly to say so, I would go to the place where htA children wore educated, and see whether indificrinunatcness were the order of his nursery : I wmild sit down at hia table, and hear whether iudiM;nunndtenev« were tbu order of hisdiscourse. It isabsurd. Why are tliesc men so fierce for liberality, why so illiberally liberal, BO passionately tolerant, so sarcaaticaJly con- tCDtcd wuh every thing? But thia matter must be handled in a grave and lioly tone of mindi awful interests and awful event* depend upon the isftue. , ,r . ,, , .. ... OM EOUCATIO.V. [Di** We >aid, that iq a tcbcol, that whicK woi com* imon to u« as men ou^ht to be first atieoded to. and (hat which iAp«ciilinrtousft»cnirt&mefi sliouM ,be lef^ to the term of our apprcntJCcfihip* And. ■tbeTrfure we gave leading and writiDg tbe br«t ptaccj bcLaiM*^ <u know Miiutbi-rv ihoughlft, and to coDimunicate our own, 10 the cbvru:t^ri»tic of smoDS dittinctioD as man, the fouQdatioti-stoa« VpoD which bis intellectual and spiritual character h to be reared. We m\ii<l, the