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metallurgist , founder , cutler , druggist , brewer , vintner , distiller , dyer , painter , bleacher , soap-maker , tanner , powdermaker , salt-maker , glass-maker , to learn as much as shall be necessary to pursue their arts understanding ^ ,
of the sconces of geometry , mechanics , statics , hydrostatics , hydraulics , hydrodynamics , navigation , astronomy , geography , optics , pneumatics , acoustics , physics , chemistry , natural history , botany , mineralogy andpharmacy . The school of technical philosophy
will differ essentially in its functions from the other professional schools . The others are instituted to ramify and dilate the particular sciences taught in the 2 d grade on a general scale only . The technical school is to abridge those which were taught there too much in extenso for the
limited wants of the artificer or practical man . These artificers must be grouped together , according to the particular branch of science in which they need elementary and practical instruction , and a special lecture , or lectures , should be prepared for each
group—and these lectures should be given in the evening , so as not to interrupt the labours of the day . This school , particularly , should be maintained wholly at the public expense , on the same principles with that of the ward schools . Through the whole of the collegiate course , at the
hours' of recreation on certain days , all the students should be taught the manual exercise , military evolutions , and manoeuvres j should be under a standing organization as a military corps , and with proper officers to train and command them .
A tabular statement of this distribution of the sciences will place the system of instruction more particularly in view . — I . or elementary grade hi the ward schools .
Reading , writing , arithmetic , geography . II . or general grade . K Language , and history , ancient and modern . 2 . Mathematics , viz :
Mathematics pure . Phy $ ico-mathematics . Physics . Chemistry . Anatomy . - Theory of medicine .
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Zoology . Botany , Mineralogy . 3 . Philosophy , viz : Ideology . Ethics . Law of nature and nations * Government . Political economy . III . or professional grade . Theology and ecclesiastical his tory . Law , municipal and foreign . Practice of medicine .
Materia-medica and pharmacy . Surgery . Architecture , military and naval , and projectiles . Technical philosophy . Rural economy . Fine arts .
On this survey of the field of science , I recur to the question , what portion of it do we mark out for the occupation of our institution ? With the first grade of education we , shall have nothing to do . —The sciences of the-2 nd . grade are our first object—and to
adapt them to our slender beginnings , we must separate them into groups , comprehending many sciences each , and greatly more in the first instance , than ought to be imposed on , or can be competently conducted by a single professor permanently . They must be subdivided from time to time , as
our means increase , until each professor shall have no more under hit care than he can attend to with advantage to his pupils and ease to himself . In the further advance of our resources , the professional schools must be introduced * and professorships established for them also . For the
present , we may group the sciences into professorships as follows *—subject , however , to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage . I . Professorship . Language and history ( ancient and modern ) , belles lettres , rhetoric and oratory .
II . Professorship . Mathematics pure , physico mathematics , p hysics , anatomy , medicine theory . III . Professorship . Chemistry * zoology , botany , mineralogy .
IV . Professorship . Philosophy . The organization of the branch of the institution which respects it * g *> yernnaent » police and economy , oe-
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550 Mr . Jefferson ' * * Plan of a College for Virginia .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/10/
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