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the children, and render their government
easy.


1t Is obvious TO every experienced in
slructor in the old system, aud to aH who
recollect the hours of their own pupilage,
tha. large proportion OF child's school
time is spent 10 no valuable effect. The
new system admits no loss Of time. The
arrangement OF the lessons is such, ths,
monitors manage the sections, and thus
the whole school is kept continually in
exercise. Aside from tie benefits i'm
mediately resulting from this continual
application. we cannot but coincide in
opinion, that habits of industry thus
early formed have lasting influence" I"


TIE obiectionssraised against this sys-
sem are ,rious, and have been a subject
Of some discussion in the British period
icsl miscellanies but we now view them
sufficiently obviated, by the success of
numerous experiments. The spirit Of
enlularion. which is generally raised to a
high pitch in these schools, has been object
ed to, as an unheilowed principle. Mr.
Bahington, in his /" Practical View of
Christian Education" takes decided stand
against it. Whether emulaiion be, or 5s
not iustifable mean to excite scholars
to application, we are not disposed here to
decide. We do not, however, view i. more
necessarily connected with the new system,
than the old In both cases il is left TO the
option of the instructor, to promote or res
train il. Ii the new system were no less
expensive than the old, We should give it
preference, from its facilitating the business
ofinstruction, and more rapidly advancing
the pupils. Ii is, however. not unworthy
of consideration. that the new system is so
Capacious, it may embrace several hun
dreds 10 one school, superintendent by one
Instructor: consequently, half the expense,
necessary to educate an equal number on
the old system, is saved. This is not a
visionary heory: the sys,sm has been es-
isblished ia England long enough to devel
ope ali the advantages ascrlbed TO it and
BY force OF its own merits, is extending
ilsslf all over Europe Gae.