the higher branches of arithmetic: turning out ten others annually, of ftill fuperior parts, who, to thofe branches of learning, fhall have added fuch of the fciences as their genius fliall have led them to: the furnifhing to the wealthier part of the people convenient fchools at which their children may be educated at their own expence.—The general objeds of this law are to provide an education adapted to the years, to the capacity, and the condition of every one, and direfted to their freedom and happinefs. Specific details were not proper for the law. Thefe muft be the bufmefs of the vifitors entrufted with its execution. The firft ft age of this education being the fchools of the hun- dreds, wherein the great mafs of the peo- will receive their inftruftion, the princi- ple foundations of future order will be laid here. Inftead therefore of putting the Bible and Teftament into the hands of the children at an age when their judg- ments are not fufRciently matured for re- ligious inquiries, their memories may here be ftored with the moft ufeful fa6ls from Grecian, Roman, European and Ameri- can hiftory. The firft elements of mo- raUty too maybe inftilled into their minds;
fuch as, when further developed as their judgments advance in ftrength, may teach them how to work out their own greatefi:
happinefs, by Ihewing them that it does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed them, but is always the refult of a good confcience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all juft purfuits.—Thofe whom either the wealth of their parents or the adoption of the ft ate fhall deftine to higher degrees of learning, will go on to the grammar4|f fchools, which conftitute the next ftage, there to be inftruded in the languages.
The learning Greek and Latin, I am told, is going into difufe in Europe. I know not what their manners and occupations may call for: but it would be very ill- judged in us to follow their example in this inftance. There is a certain period of life, fay from eight to fifteen or fix- teen years of age,