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actors will loonI 60 of the fagc, and our
places will be filed BY new generation
a generation thar may reafonably be txpec-
ted 10 act IN part virtuouny or viciouny ac-
cording to imPre(lIons it is now receiving


With free pc ople Especially, it IS an OBJ
je6t Of infinite importance, in political as
well as in a moral view, 10 educate their
children in the beit manner pofIibly for
upon this point depends, in a great meafure
the happiness or miiery of the remotef ages,
as well as Of the age that VIII next fucceed.


The people Of a free government fhould
afford 70 every family, the means of being.
acquainted with thofe common rudiments Of
learning which are eHentially requifte for
the due management of the ordinary buff
nefs Of life'-This, however, (though fadly
neglected in many di9ri6ts Of this extenfive
oountry,) is but an uncomfortable part,
comparatively, of what ought to be COM
mon education. In educating children
whether in fchools or in the families TO
which they respectively belong, it ought
ever 70 be the principal object to form cor
rettIy their tempers, their morals and hab-
its TO inipire them with laudahe ambi-
ton 70 excel TO check their infolence and
teach them fubordinaton aud patient fub-
mifEon to reafonable reRrainIs; and to lead
them to acquire fuch habits Of indufry,
frugalty; and love Of order, as will ellen
italy conduce both to their own welfare and
20 their becoming utefu citizens.


With people enjoying the bledings of
freedom and deiirous of pefpetuatinp thof-
;nehimable bIeGjng5 the prefcrvaGon of
pure morals among tbemfelves and due
training up Of their children by virtuous
education, lhould be the frft and the laft
Of their cares.-Compared with thefe great
objects, the various matters which are
ufually the topics of political difpute, are
OF very inferior confederation, ike tyth-
ings OF mint, anift, and cummin, in M
PARTON with the weightY matters of the law.


Here then let all honeft lovers of coua-
try (however widely they may differ upon
inferior points,I agree 10 a6a in CONCERT.


Here is unbounded fcope for the exercife
rs r"tr's.'f-', ,--Pcrlons- of all olaar4o-~..l
OF both iexes, may eflentialy promote Jhe
public interef by promoting good morals
in fociety, and BY their iedulous attentions
particularly to the morals and habits Of
tuch children and youth as are under their
eipecial care.


Will people at length be perfuaded TO
lay aide their bitter di(putes about modes
and forms Of civil polity, and to attend to
the things which Immediately concern the
efence of our political freedom and nation
al happinefs2 2