The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-06-04

electons-a practice condemned by Washington
and Jefferson as anti-repubcan and ruinous in its
effects TO the interests of the people.
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LECTURES ON EDUCATION. On Sunday the Goth
ult and on the following Monday evening, Rev.
S. r. HAIL, principal of the Holmes Plymouth
IN. HI Academy delivered course Of lectures in
this village on the subject Of Education. Mr. r.
is well known as devoted advocate of thorough
system Of education for the youth of the country,
and to accomplish this he takes the ground that in
sulions specially devoted to tho systematic in
sructon of teachers are ndspensibly necessary
He selected the foundation of his lectures tho
text of Scrpture-'Fathers, provoke not your chill
dren to wrath but bring them up in tho nurture
and admonition of the Lord" From this ne argu-
ed that the true basis of education for people
should be drawn from the moral principles of the
Bible, and alluded to the departure OF the present
generation from the sound maxims and practices of
our puritan fathers; lanented the moral degeneracy
of the age which he asefhed in part to the Danish
ment ofthe sacred volume as guide and reading
book from schools and maintained that the conser-
vative principles of christianity, properly incucat-
ed, were the only safeguard of republic; that man
should be educated whole; he should not be
educated as if he was all head and no heart, as if
science to strengthen. The intsllect should shed
light on the affections, and The affections should
warm the intellect. Head should answer to heart
and heart head, in free, and fraternal cores
pondence, mutually beneitiins, and benefited. 1t
ia the diamond alone that polish the diamond.
| The movements and expanding processes of all the
! faculties should be contemporary and harmonious.
| No faculty should be bribed driven to ouslrip
! oh n n and
strong, as one exquisite, and sacred whole. 1t
should be as little tolerated to push power into
precocous development, as to make the tree grow
all into roots, or all into branches. Man is to be
treated, not abortion of time, but as candid
ate for eternity, "A creature of God. Education
therefore, should take him a whole, body, head,
and heart and train him to fulfil the ends of his
being in both worlds, in all rotations, both towards
his fellow men and his God. MIR III. described
with some minuteness the excellent system OF ed
ucaion in Prussia, established by Government, and
is~S., : rrorvsranr, snaII attend
school, and which is based upon the principle, thai
'regious and moral education is the first want oil
Il people. Without this, every othor education is
not only without real utility, but in some respects
dangerous. If, on the contrary, religious educa.
ton has taken firm root, intellectual education will
have complete success"
! No one who listened to the lucid arguments and
pertinent illustrations of Mr. III. could doubt for o
moment the correctness of his views, fail TO ac
knowledge the necessity of making these princ
Piles the foundation of instruction, especially in
! republic, where the duties of men are multiplied
and where the government, like mirror, reflects
the virtues or vices of its citizens. He alluded {,
the estimate of Professor Stowe, which is that n,
more than one third of the children in the IT, s. o
proper school age attended school at allan est
mate that would not hold good applied to N. Eng
land, but a correct one, doubtless, when applied lc
all the States. rr...t.
The institution of which Mr. ii. has charge il
designed 10 furnish the country with competen
teachers and in order to enlarge its ability, he ha.
been commissioned by the Trustees thereoFto SO
ct funds TO supply it with proper apparatus build
ings and teachers. Fifteen thousand dollars is tho
sum needed, four thousand more Of which has
already been secured.
THaddeus SeDens and the Penn. M0bocrats. The
committee of the revolutionary party in the Penn