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he Is never obliged to learn Il thing twic.
over, and by the use Of the latter he knows
always where To find, placed IN its proper re-
ia'ions IN the chambers OF his intellectual
storehouse, whatever he has once made his
own. But these mental operations he regards
as the result OF judicous exercise of a com
mon endowment, and persevering applica-
''oh OF u 10 the treasuring and natural arrange
ment oil facts and principles. In acquiring.
'or Instance, new language, he sets himself
10 ascertain lis points OF resemblance or differ
ence to the other languages he has learned.
Cognate languages and dialects are, therefore.
easily engraiIed on their native stock. Lam
guage ITSELF in its great principles and milo
sopliy, was leurnt once for all in his yernacul,r
tongue.
| Whether the long moo,ed question. in re-
gard to original genius, is destined ever to be
settled ar not, one thing is most certain. ana,
.hat Is oil most practical importance, viz, that
industry, The perquisie of all, is better than
genus, the gilt of the few. BY the former.
| em'nence is within the reach of all the latter
often proves to he giddy height, from which
the mind that occupies it is apt To be precipi-
tailed down Stainless descent With MIR.
Burril, education has not been the mere even
ing study of a decade of years since his ma
Jorlty. He began to think OH his mothers
knee. She poured upon his soul the inspir-
ing baptism OF Gospel truth his father awak
ened his young imagination with the traditions
of the wars of liberty. Veterans in its cause
formed The society in which that parent NOV
Ell. His first thoughts were, therefore, direct
ed to profitable subjects. The necessity of
TABOR held HIM Ia steady course of produce
1--we effort. Now, instead of beginning the
education ot child at ten or twelve, as is
| common, let IT commence with The first de-
velopment oil mind-make study pleasure
instead oi a penalty, and make it also the oc-
cupa'ioh ol all The thoughts instead of tire
some period of school days and literary lei
sure-then, if we add to il all the hours of
idleness, OF dissipation, pleasure, manual la
Dor, recreation. and half The sleep that ca, IN
the lie ol ordinary men, the wonder fell at
MIR. Bnrrt's acquisitions will be i'm some de-
gree abaed. His mind, like every other mind,
has been always thinking Yet, while others
may have been idle or intermittent. his has
oeen probably employed and severely dscip-
lined since his early childhood Is it singu-
iar' That any man shonld be learned at thirty
WIN such mental habit, even though he may
not have The aid of genius The man who
oeStows but an hour day on any subject of
science, or on The acquisition of Il language.
VIII be surprised at the results i'm siuUIe
year But This may be done with success at
The anvil, in the workshop, at the plough. by
Inc sailor during The leisure of calm weather.
IN the monoiony of his long voyages. Every
situation admits OF il, since the mind canno,
cease 10 think!
Let The apprentice boy in every shop and
factory through the land know that EIihu
burriil carried his Greek grammar in his hat,
J ana thus soon got its contents into his head
while lie smote the anvil or labored at tn G
bellows. Let the son of the shoemaker the
blacksmith. and OF every mechanic, know that
tr"e nobility comes not OF brit! or blood ;
| mat mere is no royal road to the temple o!
science; mat every boy who aspires 10 be
great or good may become both the one and
The other, by the diligent cultivation of his
mind and heart. Let the principles and prac-
ticc OF Mr. Burrit! be generally adopted. and il
every man do not realize all TO himself ihat
Mr. b. is at thirty, yet, doubtless, the reading
ol hly languages will no longer be deemed a
phenomenon in the history of man, nor learn
ing he though: incompatible with labor and n
State OF poverty. Let any youth at The anvil
or shoe-3ench, o: IN the workshop, take his
Latin grammar and open it before him, and
MtnE while he works for eight hours a Gay.
and he will soon find that he is able TO do as
much with his mind as with his hands and
his intellectual enterprise will not retartl, bu,
! give energy 10 his manual labor With the
fashionable and the gay. the odds and ends of
lie often come to be its principal, and dimin-
lsh by more than moietv its productive re-
suits. Let these he all reclaimed and turned
| to gnod account, condition of intelligence
and wealth would soon be substituted, instead
oil ignorance and splendid poverty.