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hgetit mother , and such assistants as she might be enabled to employ , but in many cases a preparatory school , if a good one , should be reported to . From wine to fifteen or sixteen , a general school would be found the best , if conducted oh such a plan as to ensure attention , iu way of preparation to all the
important objects suggested by the Essayist . Education should then be completed by attendance on the lectures in Home university or a seminary like that at York College . Professional education would require some variation , and perhaps some branches of business would afford less time ; but instead of teaching every thing m as short a time as possible , the object should be how a certain
number of years may most profitably be filled up . There is another point on which I differ from your Essayist ; he is for negkcting Latin and Greek altogether , seeming to make no distinction between the almost exclusive study of them to the neglect of more important objects , and the giving them up entirely ; and he argues chiefly from the little benefit derived from them . It must be allowed that
they are of less benefit than they might be 3 and that they are in general taught on a very bad system , but even as they are taught , they are of much more use than the Essayist seems to be aware of . Even a scanty knowledge of Greek and Latin , and that soon forgotten , has a tendency to prepare the mind for learning other things ; and one object of much
that a child is taught is to exercise his mental powers . I have ever found in my intercourse with the world , that those who have not had what is called a classical education , learned other things with more difficulty , and in a less perfect manner , than those , of equal abilities , who had . Considering languages as
important only as means of acquiring knowledge , and admitting fully the utility of the modern languages , I still think that universal grammar , a knowledge of the principles of language , cau never be well acquired without a knowledge of the two ancient languages , to the illustration of which most attention has been
paid . Now the period which elapses between the time in which a boy should begin to learn and the commencement of manhood , that time in which he is to begin to bring his acquirements into practice for his own benefit or that of others , is loug enough to admit of acquiring a competent knowledge of Latin and Greek , and of ali the objects your Essayist recommends ; and what 1 wish to advise is , not that attempts should be
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made to bargain for the acquisition of a © - much knowledge in so much time , and to shorten this by throwing the dead languages overboard , which has too much of commercial speculation , but to study how the acquisition of Greek and Latin may be improved , simplified , and rendered more effectual , without
neglecting any other otyect * My approbation of the general tendency of the essay and my concurrence in almost all the remarks on present defects ., makes me the more anxious to enter a protest against the length to which the Essayist would go ; and though I may be prejudiced by early habits and the views I
have long beeu guided by in education ^ I cannot be interested , because I have arrived at a time of life when it can be of little importance to me , as an individual ^ what plans are adopted , and have also had such various pursuits that it would be no difficulty to me to adopt any plan which might be found most advantageous . A . January 17 , 1829 .
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Observations on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ . To the Editor . Sir , My attention has been lately directed to the subject of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ , aud if you deem the fallowing observations worth notice , or at all calculated to eiicit from others new light
upon the matter , I shall be much gratified at your giving them a place in your excellent publication . The subject is one of unquestionable interest ; and though it may be thought by some that all has been said upon it that can be said , I cannot but flatter myself that , with the generality of your readers , further remar&s designed to remove obscurities will find a ready attention .
After the ascension of Jesus , when the prejudices of the apostles as to the temporal ascendancy of the Messiah were removed , the fact of the resurrection is the burden of their constant preaching . This they set forth as the ground-work of the Christian system , as the crowning circumstance , without which all the rest
would fall to the ground . If Jesus had not risen , he would not have been the Son of God , and there would have been no future life . If Christ be not risen , then U our preaching vain , and your faith is also vain . Yea , and we are found false witnesses of God ; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ : ¦ whom ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/54/
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