the instructing children, and youth in general, in such branches of knowledge and polite exercises as are suitable to their genius and station.

Education is a very extensive subject, that has employed the thoughts and pens of the greatest men: Locke, the archbishop of Cambrey, Tanaquil Faber, M. Croufaz, Rollin, and Rousseau, may be consulted on this head.

The principal aim of parents should be, to know what sphere of life their children are designed to act in; what education is really suitable to them; what will be the consequence of neglecting that; and what chance a superior education will give them, for their advancement in the world. Their chief study should be to give their children such a degree of knowledge as will qualify them to fill some certain post or station in life: in short, to fit them for an employment suited to their condition and capacity, such as will make them happy in themselves and useful to society.