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edu- cated in the knowledge of outward nature; the representatives or law and government, to see that they be educated in llic knowledge of their moral and political duties; and the pncstbood above them all, to M^e that they be educated in the knowledge uf God and revelation, which is iho highest function of our being. And 1 will now, shew you a little how insufHcicnt any one of chc&e is to take upon itself the high trust of superintend* iDg the schools, and ^ving them from becoming narrow and sectarian. Tlieexperimenl nf leaving it to private interesbt lu attendtotheeducationofthcyouth. and giving it no patronage or superintendanee of church or state, hath been tried among the peau^&ntr)- of England for three centuries; and such i» the apathy of an uneducated people, that, till others interfered, they continued as ignorant ha they weris at the Reformation, Andforthe taAthalfcenLury it hath nf Oir KDL'CATION im bscn tried iu the imADufacltirJDg town» amongst a people common])^ well supplied not ooly with the Decessiines bui with the comforts q( life. But such is tho power of present goin^ that they rather chooie to convert tbeir children into mm* stcrs to their own cxtrava^c^mce, than port witli^ any of iheirsiij^erfliiities to have them instructed, Wh&t education docs spring up in a country upoa this spontaneous priaciple, must always be of a rery inferior kind, just enough to compi«ft the interests which an unenlightened people can dts- eern. Ami the teachers will also be of an inferior kind, such who will qualify them most readily and most cheaply for thow; short-sighted and nar- row interests. Being wholly dependent upon the people, they canHDt be expected to face out any popular prejudice, which they will be the rather disposed to minister to and pcrpetuntc. There 13 no fellowship of a tla^s or order to bear their spirit up, Tfacy havo no standing with the law or tb« churcbr to give them importance. They are but servants of the public, and ministers to its prido and plca&urc; and ihcy will be found littic derat- ed above the condition of the slaves who tncientljft were entrusted with the care of the education of the youth. You shall iind such maaterd, in the villages of England, me&gre in their knowledi^ mean in their conditions* and wholly depressed cut of the dignity proper to one who i^ rearing souls for the tile tliat is, and the life that is to coma In Ireland, the ecndilion of auch schoote is still more niiKenible, and lh« books usually: taught in them contain saperi^titionand barbarism in their gross