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EdUcatioH-There are few terms of more indefinite meaning than the one which heads this letter. Some suppose 1t consists in learn ing to read, write, and cipher; while others contend, that no young man can be deemed educated, or at least aeeU educated, until he he has been dubbed 4. .H. at college, has passed term at some academy, or has be- come licentiate iii one of the learned pro- fessions My definition varies from both, and comprises more than either. l define education--a knowledge of our religious, moral, political, social, aud relatire duties AND THE HABITUAL PERFORMANCE OF THEM. The apprentice, who has merely acquired the names of the tools which be- long to trade, may as well be deemed to have learnt that trade, as the boy to be edu- cated, who has merely obtained school in- struction. The tools are the means by which the apprentice, by attention and industry, Is to acquire knowledge of the trade, and his reputation as mechanic, will depend upon the fidelity and skill with which he employs them. Schooling IS to the mental what tools are to the physical powers-the means oi becoming useful to one's sell, and to society dt large ,-dHQ Ill DOttl cases SuCCeSS dHu uiS- tinction are wisely made to depend upon in- dividual exertion. The boy may acquire the mechanical art, but the noblest powers of the mind are seldom developed out in manhood Thus you pereieve that consider your edu- cation as having but commenced; and that you have yetto learn, by study and reflection, those high duties of manhood which are to have an intimate bearing upon your future happiness and prosperity. Your mind has yet to be disciplined, by reading, observation, and reflection, and your habits are yet to be fixed. Practice is as necessary in this as il Is in mechanics-it Is as necessary to make a fluent orator, or graceful writer, as 1t is in cutting well coat, or shoeing horse. To stimulate you to the performance of duty, and to deter you from habits of sloth, indo- lenee, and vice, here venture to assure you, as a conviction growing out of half centu- ry's experience and observation-that the practice of every virtue will bring its reward, in one shape or another-and that indulgence in vice, will as assuredly be followed by some corresponding suffering, in mind or body. vie enjoy animal propensities ill common with the brute creation; but the higher feel ings-the moral sentiments-the pleasures of intelleet-belong peculiarly to man-and man rises in the scale of beings in proportion as he cultivates and improves these peculiar gifts of his Creator.