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    daring our firm belief , that their works are destined to the same oblivion by which so many commenta opinionum have been already overtaken . Wfc must break off here for the present , hoping in our next number to accompany Mr , Conybeare with more satisfaction through his history of the secondary interpretation of Scripture , than we have been able to do through his preliminary explanations . We cannot close his volume for a time , however , without expressing our regret at the insinuations against those who reject secondary interpretation , which are scattered through it . Compared with a Horsley or a Magee , he is indeed a mild and candid controversialist ; but why not rise wholly superior to the use of those customary forms of incivility } In the whole domain of knowledge it might * have been expected , that no region would have been so tranquil and serene as that in which the seekers after religious truth pursue their occupation * Largior hie campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo ; solemque suum , sua sidera ndrunt .

    Yet none is more disturbed by angry passions . The man who , if he had been writing on any other subject , would have felt himself dishonoured by mingling personal reflections with his argument , no sooner begins to write on a theological topic , than his opponent appears to him in an odious light , and he charges him with pride , rashness , and prejudice , and will hardly allow

    him to profess himself a sincere believer in Christianity . Such insinuations are peculiarly unwarrantable in connexion with the present subject , as it is admitted both by Mr . Conybeare and Mr . Chevallier , ( Bampton Lectures , p . 37 , Hulsean Lectures , p . 55 , ) that no essential doctrine of the gospel can be built solely on secondary and typical interpretation .

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    Art , III . —Letters on Early Ediication , addressed to J . P . Greaves , Esq . By Pestalozzi . Translated from the German Manuscript . With a Memoir of Pestalozzu London . 8 vo . pp . 157 . The cause of education is no party matter . Grateful for the lights we have had , and cordially welcoming every new accession of knowledge on this most interesting subject , we know not a more affecting office than the review of those numerous systems which , in different periods , have been put into action for the blessing or the bane of youthful happiness and improvement . If now and then the recollection of some true friend to the noblest

    interests of the human race , nses up to cheer and refresh us in the survey , how much more frequently have we felt pity and sympathy with those who have been the subjects of . so many unwise experiments , indignation at tyranny , sorrow for partial or positively bad measures , mixed with a feeling of triumphant exultation at the thought that man , with all his opportunities

    of doing mischief , cannot mould the creature man altogether according to his will ! One generation is still planning and settling for another ; and few , in these days more especiall y , seem to feel any modest doubts as to their competency for the work of training human beings virtuously . On the contrary , by the easy confidence with which it is often undertaken , one would be led to suppose that the educators themselves are often alike unconscious both of their power and weakness . Thi& is one of many instances of

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    Review . —Pestalozzi on Early Education . 43

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/43/