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REVIEW. u Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid,to blame."—* Pope.
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Art * I . —Systematic Education , fyc . ( Continued from p . 576 . ) HAVING finished the Natural History of every other department of the terrestrial works of Godr
we seem to have wanted its completion in that of Man , whose name is just once barely meat ion ed in the chapter on Zoology , as-belonging to the first order of the class Mammalia *
We should have thought , therefore , that the chapter on the Structure and Functions of Man , which nearly closes the work , would , with great propriety , have been introduced here ; and that , especially if the account of the brain and nerves had been a little
more minute , it might have served to assist in the illustration , at least , of Hartley ' sTheory of Vibrations , which , if considered as no more than an ingenious speculation , we think did scarcely deserve to have been turned off so abruptly as it is in p . 2 , 55 . The whole subject of Physics having been then exhausted , the transition
would have been natural to Metaphysics , according to the original signification of that word ; which only meant to express that the work of Aristotle , which treats of subjects since termed metaphysical , was written [ Aero , too < bv < riY . a , " after the
physics , " or his work on Natural History . To only one branch of this department of science , viz . the Philosophy of tliie Human Mind , Dr . Carpenter with great propriety confines himself . In treating of the intellectual and moral nature of man , the Doctor
divides his subject into Mental Philosophy , Moral Philosophy and Logic . The object of Mental Philosophy is , to ascertain the powers of the human mind , thje origin and nature of its various modes of thought and feeling ,
the ways in which they operate upon each other , and the means by which they are to be cultivated or repressed , A study of incalculable utility in the business of education ,, as it gives to tKtfse who conduct it correct viewa as to its object , shews the vast im-
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portance of early impressions , of early attention to the culture of habits and dispositions , and points out the best means of so directing the understand * ing and affections as may lead-t © virtue and happiness . It will lead the young to perceive how their present
dispositions and conduct will affect their future character , how important to avoid a frivolous employment of the mind , and how impossible to in * dulge in vicious gratifications , without diminishing the means of happiness , and checking their progress towards
perfection 5 „ to consider the formation of habits as requiring their utmost circumspection ; to avoid the baneful and cherish the beneficial ; and to distinguish between those means of happiness which are of primary value , and those which are subordinate onl y *
It will preserve the young from falling into a desultory mode of reading , by presenting them with a subject deeply interesting to those who pursue it with patient reflection . It will preserve the youthful female , who bas completed the round of school
education , from those habits of frivolity and dissipation , into which ypung women , without any particular object , are so apt to fall 3 and it will eminently prepare them for the business of early education , when called to discharge the duty of parents .
" Those who might build upon their foundation , would recognise the skilful , hand of maternal wisdom ; and those , for . whom those efforts were made when they compared their own happy freedom from destructive errors with the condition of
others , would bless the well-directed soli * citude which had watched over their early impressions , and judiciously guided their affections , desires , and expectations , " " An acquaintance with the philosophy of the mind , enables us , besides , more correctly to appreciate the value of
Christianity y ' the strength of its . evidences , the worth of its precepts , and the exalted nature of its motives . And it tends , beyond all other objects of philosophical investigation , to correct , enlarge and raise our conceptions of the attributes and character of the Supreme Being ) and to lay a fouiw
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Review. U Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid,To Blame."—* Pope.
REVIEW . u Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid , to blame . "—* Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/35/
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