New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-12-22


.ory of the L1nding Of the Pilgrims on Plymouth
Rock. The Annual Meeting will take place at the
A.t5r House at P. NJ, the Grafton will be de.
ligered at the Tabernacle at 3 o'clock and the So
c.et,, with It's guests and friends will sit down t"
Il social and festive Dinner a, the Aston Hose ut
p Ma Drner from which alcohol is strictly
excluded, and it. feyerish and sckly exharaton
replaced by the genuine inspiration Of fairy forms
and diamond elances. This is glorious advance
in the maj ch OF mind and it will meet the
RICH, kind of az orova from the Sons of New-Eng-
land We know al least one member OF the So
ciety, who haa never attended It's alcoholic testl-
yals, that will no, fa, 10 attend this evehing.
10 Rev H. W BELLOWS Lecture before ,h+
Mercantile Library Association last evening was
one of the very best which ha. unclaimed and in
s,ructed an audience this win er. IL subject wa.
the Capacity of Man for Education, and its iunda-
mental proposition that every rational human being
possesses an unbounded capacity for Intellectual
csltore and Improvement in con,radstinc,on from
the lower animals whose faculties only capable
of improvement to an exceedingly limited extent
From this established truth (Which he forciby illus
trated) the Lecturer deduced tina; interminabe Pro
gress is the great law of Mans nature and the chief
element of his history; and that Education is thu
proper end of his being, without exception OF rank
or sex. or cnndilion-Ed Education not in the meagrc
and barren sense in which it is generally taken
not mere Reading, Writing, GraRmar, Nc. but the
harmonious and full development Of ali his faculties,
the unf ef his spiritual nature. In compariso
with this, all other objects of human effort are IN
significant he who negIeos this for the acquire
nent Of wealth, power, or hoaers, or the gratit
cation of his senses is guilty OF treason asainN
himse!i-of moral suicide.
Mr. BIS criticism Of Education, commonly
called was very thorough and fearless Admit
ting tha, the elem Antary branches are necessary,
as the tools with which true Education Is 10 be
wrought out, he coAtended that the end kept ever
in view should be the requirement OF ideas, not
wori,-ot things not names. Much OF the time
now devoted to study, whesher in school or col
l,sc, is neatly thrown away. Our children ana
youth should be taught astronomy, chemistry, the
laws of light and heat, &c &c. rather than gram
mar, rhetoric and languages especially dead ones
Better ten ideas and bu, expression tor them
Than ten words and but one idea. The monk who
has but seen horse from his window may know
its name in six languages, yet know infinitely less
of value about him than the s,abe-boy who knows
him by but name.
Mr.. b. strongly deprecated the distinction OF
educated and uneduca,ed classes. To say that
any class should remain uneducated is a libel or
Humanity. They who seriously contend that the
poor laboreI is better without education must be
living in luxury on the earnings of others, OF which
Universal Education weud deprive them. But
the danger from Arstocracyis less than that of APP
athy and version in the poer themselves, whs, ig-
norant of the advantages the vital necessity OF real
Education, refuse to make any sacrifice of sensual
enjoymen;s for its requirement.
In conclusion, the Lecturer insisted on a radical
reform in systems of Female Edacation. They
are wre,chedly inefficient and worthless. The wo-
man instructed only in u round of frivolous accom-
plishmen,s can never be the proper companion of
intellectual and cultivated Man. There is no sex
in mind; and the education Of Women should be
as thorough, as practical and as substantial that
of Men. So only car Woman be elevated TO her
proper dignity and restored tie her lost rights So
only may she become what her Creator designed
her to be, the equal and associate OF Man. and vie
with him in the full development of her in'eectu-
al nature, and in preparation for her immortal
destiny
MIR, Bellows spoke An hour and quarter
to crowded auditory, who eviuced by profound
attention through his Lecture and enthusiastic
plaudts at its close their admiration of his ele-
yated views, concise diction and most impressive
delivery.
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