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may address them in Danish. 1t may then
we'll be asked What good is such Danish stu
dy bringing its ~votaries ! But even with a good
acquaintance with the Danish language Young
men would, in our time of general learning and
proficiency, have a poor chance when compe-
ting with others, if they are entirely unac-
quainted with French, German and Spanish.
An introduction into these languages shouId
therefore also be part of the instruction given
III an improved "Burgher school :" nav even
the rudlments of Latin ought to be taught as
being the foundation of all linguistic study,
and all this, without excluding Religion, Arith-
metic, Geography and History, might easily be
realized by the pecuniary means now 50 use
leSsly spent, if a competent man were appoint
ed to give instruction in these branches of
learning to certain pupils forming a higher class
in the school, and it is more than probable, that
such an arrangement would be O. great gain
even tc the school itself, as thereby young
aspiring persons would be enabled to get a
good education here, and therefore might BIO
expected to take the advantage offered here at
a cheap rate rather than to go abroad to obtain
it at a dearer rate it is, however, reasonable,
that the payment for instruction in the higher
class should be at least twice as high as that
for instruction in the other classes, those of the
so called "Lancasterian" school, where, for in
otl GtlOi Illllld W GudU given IN JllG Bur
gher-school, the same payment must be suppo-
sed to be given. Such an increased pay for a
higher instruction must even be considered
quite low, and, on the other hand, it may also
be salutary as being the means of forming me.
ceSSary selection OF the pupils and limitation of
their number.-My remarks here are only an
exposition OF complaints and hints made to mo
by various persons and at various times: nv
own concurrence with these views is nv reason
of representing them here, but, of course, as1
seen by me in their various bearings, and | fee
convinced, that the Public will recognise them
and endorse them as spoken out Of their own
hearts.
But there is yet another reflection with re-
gard to the vapidneSs and inef1iciency of the
burgher-schOol, and the necessity of its thorough
reformation, which has just now forced itself
upon me. When the emancipation of the ne
groes was to take place, a time to train them
for the proper use of their new freedom was
appointed in other words that spiritual and
moral tie, Which more or less bindS,all civilized
men, should also be laid, as much as possible,
upon them, instead of that material and com
pulsory tie the slavery, which was to be loosed.
A proposition to reduce the military force and
to lay down the forts in both of our towns.
founded on very good reasoning, has lately
been laid before the present Colonial Council,
InOuSn not at present carried but also, IN case
of an eventual realization of such a plan, a spi-
ritual force ought to be substituted for the ma
terial one, the abandonment of which has been
proposed instead of the material strongholds,
which were proposed to be given up, there
ought to be spiritual strongholdS, which could
supersede them, by putting down barbarism,
the great enemy in our very midst, and the two
expensive town-schools might fifty be converted
into such forts, if only the right kind of spiri-
tual force could be made to animate them, and,
through them, by degrees, the whole population,
so that intellectual light and moral strength,
which are unfortunately signally wanting in our
island, might-like the "Ieaven hid III three
measures Of meal"-leaven the whole mass of
our people, and tina. industry, order and homes
ty, and their lovely and blissful offspring
plenty, comfort and peace, might displace idle
ness, disorder and dishonesty, now so rife among
us, as we'll as their ugly, baneful brood want,
wretchedness and malice. [ feel convinced,
that there is sound sense in this suggestion
for, in spite of what secular sensualists and egot-
ists,-often renegades from their own protested
sacred choice,-may think, say or do to estab-.
lish a contrary scope, it will still be u~nrefuted
for ever, that at IS tie SPIRIT that qaickeaeA.'
Under this head it is now also to be shown.
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