Of Adverbs; - their utility; -principal Adverbs ex- Of Conjunctions; - derived from Nouns or Verbs; Of Prepositions; - an account of the derivation and 55 Of Prefixes; alphabetically arranged, and explained 97 Of Terminations; alphabetically arranged, and ex- - INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY. Of Logic, or the Art of Reasoning......................... First Principles of Contingent Truths............ First Principles of Necessary Truths......................... - INTRODUCTION. On the importance of education it is unnecessary to enlarge. Men in every age, and in every country, have evinced their sense of its importance, by bestowing upon it such attention, as the circumstances in which they have been placed, and the degree of civilization which they have attained, have enabled them to bestow. Education is, indeed, the grand engine, on which, as it is well or ill conducted, the prosperity or ruin of empires ultimately depends. The subject has been ably and variously treated, and cannot, perhaps, admit of much that is new, even in the mode of illustration; but though new objects may not be introduced, those that have been already seen may probably be placed in new attitudes, or exhibited from different points of view. Should a man, for more than twenty years, have had his attention directed to one object, he must have beheld it with great indifference, if he has discovered nothing that a has escaped the notice of other observers. A few remarks on Education may not then be improper, and I trust will not be unacceptable; and as that philosophy, which is built on the firm basis of inductive reasoning, is found to stand fast, when the fabric of the theorist lies a scattered ruin, I may venture the more boldly to offer observations, which are the result, not of speculation, but of experience. Education, in the most extensive sense of the term, includes whatever has a tendency to bring to the greatest perfection, of which they are susceptible in the present state, those bodily and mental powers which nature has conferred on man. Considering it in this view, we should probably find, that no people, whether barbarous or polished, were ever known entirely to neglect it. But what is, or has been termed education, must ever vary with the state of society. Whilst men are in a rude state, their attention is chiefly directed to improve themselves in such exercises of the body, as may render them most eminent in the chase or in the fight; but when they have attained a higher degree of refinement, education consists more particularly in the cultivation of the mind. It is the dictate of common sense, confirmed by the testimony of the voyager and traveller, that even |