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276 be brought forward, if the child be confined to the ociety of a man, however agacious that man may be.

Beides, in youth the eeds of every affection hould be own, and the repectful regard, which is felt for a parent, is very different from the ocial affections that are to contitute the happines of life as it advances. Of thee equality is the bais, and an intercoure of entiments unclogged by that obervant eriounes which prevents diputation, though it may not enforce ubmiion. Let a child have ever uch an affection for his parent, he will always languih to play and chat with children; and the very repect which he entertains, for filial eteem always has a dah of fear mixed with it, will, if it do not teach him cunning, at leat prevent him from pouring out the little ecrets which firt open the heart to friendhip and confidence, gradually leading to more expanive benevolence. Added to this, he will never acquire that frank ingenuounes of behaviour, which young people can only attain by being frequently in ociety where they dare to peak what they think; neither afraid of being reproved for their preumption, nor laughed at for their folly.

Forcibly impreed by the reflections which the ight of chools, as they are at preent conducted, naturally uggeted, I have formerly delivered my opinion rather warmly in favour of a private education; but further experience has led me to view the ubject in a different light. I till, however, think chools, as they are now regulated, the hotbeds of vice and folly, and the knowledge&ensp;