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Purposing to communicate something to you all respecting your duty, three things seem necessary to be premised:

I. The preciousness of the treasure which God bestows on those to whom He entrusts the pledges of life.

II. To what end or purpose He confers those pledges, and to what objects education ought to be directed.

III. That youth demand good education so greatly that, failing it, they must of necessity be lost.

Having established these three principles, I shall proceed to my purpose, and explain in order the departments of your solicitude respecting this early age.

JOHN AMOS COMENIUS.