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Excerpt from On Colonial Literature, Science and Education, Vol. 1 of 3: Written With a View of Improving the Literary, Educational, and Public Institutions of British North America
Blac ketone's, Kent's and Story's Commentaries on Law, are all works where comprehensive and popular views are pre sented of the difi'erent branches of learning, philosophy, or law, on which they treat. This design therefore is only original in giving to the Lectures A s'rc'ru educa'rronar. Arac teb. They are addressed to both sexes. They embrace the Infant School, the College, the Institute, the Museum, and the Library; suggest the principles of a thorough system of prac tical education for these Colonies - and then endeavour to guide the mind in the general subjects these volumes em brace, free of all party or sectarian views, in the great work of self-improvement, which is the only sure foundation of exten sive acquirements, purity of taste, and solidity of judgment. Schools and Colleges confer the habits of learning only to acquire practical and useful information is the business of af ter life. The woman and the man can only obtain in child hood the means of knowledge and of self-culture: to extend and use these acquisitions is a duty which runs from childhood to the grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
