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however be impracticable to enter upon the subject with any advantage, apart from what belongs to Moral and Religious

education; and rather than injure so momentous a theme by a hasty and incidental treatment of it, I omit, or post-pone, much that might have been included, as bearing upon intellectual culture. It is to be presumed however, that no parent or teacher—at home, will lose sight of so main a part of the business of education, or fail to avail them-selves of all proper occasions for cherishing a faculty in default of which active virtue can hardly exist. The minds of young persons had better be left void of every thing, rather than be destitute of the power and habit of transferring the consciousness of other minds to their own.