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t matter superintending^ the schools might be entrusted to the rep resen tat ires of law and government In ancient tiine.K, when the governors uf the stat« and the legislators were aUu the moralists and philosophers, wha consnlied for the weii-betn^ of] the people, in the largest 6cn«e in which they could conceive it, the care and superiutendanee^y of the youth might well be entrusted to tbem^^ But* in these times, when statesmanship applies itself exclusively to public concerns, and it is con* sideredaninlVingementoii lhe[mTtof]aw to meddle ^i with our familiar affairs, which are held sacred to H every man, it were totally inconsistent with the ^ division of power that they should takcupon them the supcrintcndancc of the schools. The magi* atrates who repre*4enHhe Inw in the country parts, and the deputies of j^overnment who watch over the peace would conceive it foreign to their vo* cation to be burdened with such a charge, aod would not be fitted to undertake it. Law and go- ^ hl\ ] ojitjuvcATioiro S33 Tcrnincut, amoiigi^t the GoUiic natioDfi, include a timch Bmatlcr scope of the private well-being of mcfi, ihtin they did among Lbc clasatc QQiiuns; and there is in the spirit of the people, a decided aversion to their taking more upon ihem than tbe foTOigft policy and inward peace of the commu- Dity, If iDtere^tp tbtirefore, be sectaiiaiu and swallow up tbe higher and nobler desires of the soul» law ift i^till more sectahanp aud by ita very natuie conEiicd ta que outward aiid overt act4; aud theief^ire is altogietlier iucuinpeteiit to take charge of the practical education of the people, so as to actect the proper persons, watch over the diftciplioe, judge of tbe instructions, and give Iifo to tlfee whole interior orgaDization of the schools. And yet, while 1 thus exclude both private interest and law, bb being sectarian, and narrow- sphered, 1 do not wholly exclude eiUier of them. Private interest should hare an insif^ht over every thinjf, to take advantage of tbe schools or not; there should be no compulsion, there should be no bribe of any kind applied to it : it should be left wholly at liberty to make its choice of Uial which it is not abU- to prepare, and perhaps not er^' well able to judge of, but of which, never- clees, the judgment mu£t not be taken out of its hand, lest evils of a greater magnitude should be introduced. And law should stand to the scbool& in the same r<.lalion in which it doth to other parts of the ccmmon good, ready to seo that every man fulfilleth his covenant, and dis-