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est fbnsR. In America, this expert- numt ts making upon a large scale; and although 1.] ON BDUCATIDJf-iei 8S1 tbi^y have central colleges in tncnt uf tbc Slates, for fumisliinff leachers, 1 am informed, that tht system is rapidly bringinj^ the condition of school- masters into that ofsr-rvantSt who are hired yenr* Jy or half-yearly, and removable at the pleasure of iheir empioycrs. The principle of supply and demand, which t« the tdoi of tticscdayK, wt[t not answer for any thing beyond the moitt coat&e aiHl common bodily necessities of man. And beiog applied to our moral and spiritual ncccwttios, it never failcth to bring thcmund;:r the dominion of ptofil and tosii. It reduceth every relation to cal- colaiion^ of interest, and makes ironry, which is but the medium for exchanging visible things, the medium aUo for the exchange of feeling and affection and duty. It hath dready gone far to defltTOy the relation between servant and master, and the respect due from inferior to superior; n$ hath been well exemplified by the abolition of the combination lawa, which hath afforded \»% an opporlunity of veL-tiig what effect tliit; principle of wpply and demand hath had in abohshing tho» finer feelings of gratitude and mutual respect by which society i^ bound together. If the same experiments were made on education, a?: the economists recommend, the result would be the Bame, to destroy the reverence in which the teach- ers and ingtructor« of youth have in all countries been held, to estimate them according to the profit, not the profitableness, of their instructioo, and to faring into an inferior estimaiion all learning and knnwled^e M'hicb could not be converted into ready money. Those sciences would be taught which are marketable, and those teachers wbo fitted our sons most cipeditiously for the market 832 ON EDUCATIOV, i [OAi place, would be in the faif^heu repute. Biit» ai for sound principles, enlarged news of daty, trui manliness of character, reverence for the laws, and ibc king, and the authorities under him ; piety « to («f)d, railhfuitii^8 to Christ, and reg^neratina ^| by the HolySpiril, and iitl the other priiitipirt^^ and effects of Bpiriiual life ; tlic^ie would remaia unregarded in the choice of schoolmasters, uti*' taught in the sebooU, and consequently unprac* tised in the world, and be reputed ho many volgar^H errors, which every liberal man must renounce ia^^ private, and in public re5)iect ouljr so long as the public iniud is not sufficiently enltghtened tOi despise then). Let us next see how this importan