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THE JEDtJCATION OF THE HtfMAN RA ^ fi . ( From , the German of Lessing . ) To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Slit , I send you a translation of an hundred thoughts , every one of which is pregnant with considerations of the highest nicw menU Individually , they have the pungency of acute aphorisms ; collectively , the force of a well-adjusted system .
I should be glad to learn from some of your learned correspondents , how far the leading ideas may separately have been advanced by previous writers ; the whole , as a whole , belongs unquestionably to Lessing himself . As the author is little known in this country , it is a duty the
translator owes to his memory to declare his conviction , that this original view of the economy of Providence in the moral government of the world—this new attempt at theodicy—was not a merely idle sport of wit and subtlety on the part of the writer , but an earnest and elaborate attempt to prove what he wished
to find true . I do not suppose that any one of your readers will be found willing to adopt ideas so new and unexpected , but at the same time I think there will be few who may not profitably take occasion to re-examine their own opinions by the suggestions which these hundred thoughts must awaken , I should Hunk , in every mind not yet shut against new impressions .
With respect and good wishes , July 1 , 1806 . Your's , &c . H . C . R . EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN * RACE . S . I . Revelation is to the whole race of mankind what education is to the individual person .
S . 2 . Education is a revelation made to a single man ; and revelation is the education of the whole race of mankind , which has taken place and still continues to take place .
. S , 3 . I will , not here examine whether it would be of use in the art of education to consider revelation in this point of view ; but in theology it will doubtless be very serviceable , and remove many difficulties , if we consider revelation as an
education of mankind . S . 4 k Education gives nothing to man which he could not also have derived from himself , though with mere difficulty
and more slowly . It gives therefore nothing to mankind which human reason , left to itself , would not have acquired ; but itgave and still gives to matt the most important of these things , more easily and earlier .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/20/
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