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200 inferred, that reaon has whipered ome doubts, for it generally happens that people aert their opinions with the greatet heat when they begin to waver; triving to drive out their own doubts by convincing their opponent, they grow angry when thoe gnawing doubts are thrown back to prey on themelves.

The fact is, that men expect from education, what education cannot give. A agacious parent or tutor may trengthen the body and harpen the intruments by which the child is to gather knowledge; but the honey mut be the reward of the individual's own indutry. It is almot as aburd to attempt to make a youth wie by the experience of another, as to expert the body to grow trong by the exercie which is only talked of, or een. Many of thoe children whoe conduct has been mot narrowly watched, become the weaket men, becaue their intructors only intil certain notions into their minds, that have no other foundation than their authority; and if they are loved or repected, the mind is cramped in its exertions and wavering in its advances. The buines of education in this cae, is only to conduct the hooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgment itelf, parents expect them to act in the ame manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illuminated it themelves; and be, when they enter life, what their parents are at the cloe. They do not conider that the tree, and even the man&ensp;