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Rh foreigner, and insufficient to give access to the simplest literature in a foreign tongue. The result is what might have been anticipated : the boy goes forth to play his part in life, without judgment, credulous and ignorant : his memory may indeed have been strengthened, but it is equally likely to have been impaired by the process ; and his other powers are little more developed by anything he owes to his schooling, than those of the young Bengali who has been taught to repeat slokes as the most meritorious accomplishment of life. Truly enough does Faraday point to the popular belief in table-turning ; equally truly may we point to the more recent spread of spiritualism ; to the quackeries that disgrace our age ; nay, more important than all, to the widespread illiberality of Theological beliefs,—an illiberality shared by the Churchman, the dissenter, and the man of no creed,—manifesting itself in each in prosecution of dissentients according to the power of the sect,—as a proof of the failure of our system of education, to attain the important end of all education—that of enabling the man to play his part in the social system, and to do that which in him lies to act as an intelligent and responsible being.

We are far from believing that the body of educated and generally enlightened men who are entrusted with the administration of our University are capable of deliberately adopting the vulgar errors of the ‘cramming’ system as too frequently practised at home. But here it is not sufficient to discountenance that system ; it is one so akin to the habits and traditions of the natives, that if any opening be left, they will assuredly of their own proper accord fall into it ; and the only result of our teaching will be, to substitute one set of dogmas for another, and to leave the men more irreclaimable pedants than before. It is so much easier for the native to commit to memory whole pages of a given text than to master the ideas which it conveys, (which would oblige him probably to refer to other than his text books, and to exercise a good deal of thought and comparison in the process,) that if the former will enable him to pass his examination fairly, he will almost certainly as a rule content himself therewith. The examination once got over, the work has served his purpose, and in process of time, it fades away from his mind like a bad photograph from paper. It must, we fear, be confessed that the University has hitherto produced an undue proportion of such superficial graduates, and the causes which have permitted, even if they have not necessitated, such a result, are not difficult to indicate. We have sought to inculcate too much and too great a variety of matter, and we have taught nothing thoroughly. It is thought by some that every man of good education should know some-