is hoped, be induced to pay some attention to improvement in Education*; and to consider it a duty to give their best assistance in adding to the solid benefit of the human race, by increasing its knowledge and virtue, its real enjoyments and happiness; neither to fear obstacles nor inconveniences; neither to dread personal trouble, nor to shrink from ridicule in the exe *The want of really useful knowledge among the higher classes of this country is truly lamentable. The first third of their lives is spent at school and the university; and if it were the intention of those who superintend their education, to send them forth totally uninformed upon all questions, by a knowledge of which they might be of service to society, we should certainly compliment them upon their success.—Westminster Review, No. 3, p. 117. Both in the selection of subjects to be taught, and in the mode of teaching them, which has been perpetuated even to the present day, there is exemplified a most extraordinary ignorance of the very elements of rational instruction. Westminster Review, No. 1. This miserable system, which has stood the shock of ages, which has exercised an influence so universal and uncontrolled; which, like other tyrannies, has excited the execrations of thousands, because it has filled with bitterness the most precious years of life, which has so often blasted the bud of intelligence and genius, and so constantly checked their growth, is, we trust, nearly at an end. Westminster Review, No. 1. cution of a plan conformable to wisdom, justice, and love: "Their spirits rising as their toils increase *." It is frequently recommended that young Ladies should take an active part in the instruction and management of poor-schools. In order to enable them to follow this Christian advice, parents must pursue a widely different course in education. The means used for development must be spiritual, acting upon the spiritual powers. Love, in union with Truth, must begin, carry on, and finish the work. Religion must not only dwell on the lips: it must sink into the heart, and become a principle of action t. * Let the consideration of the universal sinfulness and corruption of mankind awaken thy spirit and stir up thy diligence, and endear all the watchfulness in the world for the service of God, for there is in it some difficulty and an infinite necessity.-Jeremy Taylor. + Schools for Education were erected upon the principle of punishment: very unhappily indeed, as punishment, instead of softening or improving manners, tends to harden those who suffer by it. Humanity in time prevailed over vicious education, and a sacred truth was discovered, that man is a creature from whom every thing may be obtained by love, nothing by fear.-Lord Kaimes. Daughters must no longer be taught to follow custom in all its follies: to surrender their own powers of reflection and judgment to the authority of fashion: to seek for admiration and applause abroad, instead of wishing to secure the approbation of those most tenderly, most deeply interested in their welfare. But they must be early initiated into the knowledge and the practice of whatever is necessary in the various departments of domestic duty. They must be perseveringly exercised in subduing pride and narrow selfishness, the vices of little minds; and be made early and active instruments of instruction and usefulness in the domestic circle. If they are brought up in ignorance of these subjects: if, instead of being trained in the duties that belong to a Christian: if, instead of being taught that the worldly mind is at enmity with God, they are led to attach importance to Fashion, to dress, to trifles: to be engrossed by worldly cares, fears, hopes, and joys: to love the praise of man more than the praise of God-sensual, earthly, selfish passions will gain complete possession of their hearts; and it would be unjust and unreasonable to expect that they will be able to assist those with whom they are connected at home by the ties of duty, of gratitude, of love, or be qualified to undertake the duties of active benevolence abroad*. Daughters, so far from being taught to consider fashion and happiness as synonimous, to make the opinion of the world their law, and fashion their rule of conduct, must be trained, from infancy, to prefer the service of God to the slavery of the world, to consider it as their indispensable duty, and to feel it a privilege and a delight, to relieve their Parents by taking an active part in the instruction and management of the younger part of the family; and thus to qualify themselves for their future vocation. * It is a singular injustice which is often exercised towards women, first to give them a very defective education, and then to expect from them the most undeviating purity of conduct: to train them in such a manner as shall lay them open to the most dangerous faults, and then to censure them for not proving faultless. Strictures on Female Education.-H. More. Blame not nature, but thy own evil customs; for thy neglect of thy fields will make fern and thistles to grow. It is not only because the ground is accursed, but because it is neglected, that it bears thorns.-Jeremy Taylor. An education that has called forth the affections of the heart, strengthened the head, exercised the judgment, implanted good habits, that has made them rich in intellectual and moral worth, that has led them to estimate their own happiness by the proportion of good they do to others, will have taught them that, so far from joining in the poor impertinences of fashion, and abandoning themselves to the false pleasures of the world, which debase and corrupt the soula world "Where Dissipation wears the name of Bliss" it is incumbent on them to set an example of piety, of order, of virtue; actually to devote themselves to the service of their fellowcreatures; to let the pure love of God be the motive and the end of every action; and incessantly to study how they may reach the elevation for which they were intended*. As the female mind has been emancipated from the fetters of ignorance, the female character has risen in respectability. Wherever religious principle has been made the basis, it has been seen that a liberal system of education, instead of producing a dislike to, or dereliction of |