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convey notions of the movements of the heavenly
bodies ; and, rude and imperfect as those models must
have been, they served better than any oral descrip-
tion could have done to impart a knowledge of the solar
system as it was then supposed to exist. But, at the
same time that he advocated the use of such material aids
to knowledge, he expressed a caution against trusting too
much to them, for though the apparatus should be made
as perfect as possible, it should always be remembered
that the object of such aids is to teach men to think
and not to supersede thought. As an illustration of the
advantage to be gained by tangible representations, Dr.
Whewell showed by the different foldings of a sheet of
paper demonstrations of several of the definitions and
axioms of Euclid, to which objections have been taken as
being neither clear or self evident, and exemplified the me-
chanical law respecting the weight of bodies when resting
upon an inclined surface in a simple manner, by the sus-
pension and equipoise of a chain over an inclined plane.
With respect to the third proposition, that one object of
education should be to give an appreciation ofthe beautiful,
there might be some question, but he considered that a
love of what is beautiful in form and colour, elevated in
thought and language, or harmonious in sound, is eminently
calculated to raise the character and feelings of men, and
to render them mote human, and therefore more humane.
lie thought it of great importance to the improvement of
the human race that even the humblest and the poorest
should be surrounded by, or at least have frequent opportu-
nities of seeing, what is lovely and beautiful, and the teach-
ing of music he considered to be scarcely inferior to any of
the other branches of a popular education as a means of
softening and elevating the character. As to the fourth, and
what may perhaps be considered the most important object
of education—that of teaching men how to be good—Dr.
Whewell regretted there was so little agreement as to the
mode by which it could be best attained. There could not,
therefore, be collected any aids to education of this kind.
But it might be confidently asserted that mental education
properly directed could not fail to produce beneficial
effects. Moral and religious training must always go hand
in hand with intellectual culture, for by teaching man the
exercise of his rational faculties, by making him partici-
pate in and appreciate what is true and beautiful, they
would not fail to make him good.

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Tuesday, July 11.
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