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622 JTU~ocis' ~ fj~6))~((~ L/~cq4ion. [()(;TonLR,
and children are not beyond our reach. A strong nnited governn~eiit at hon~e, ~-e speal~, and Turkey, Ii~dia, Ciiiiia, ki~o~v
that ~~e are a ~~o~~er upon tiie earth. The brig}it cross appears
in tile heavens, i9~ 1~oc &ij(i~O v~~c~~." A greater thaji Constatitine is n~arciiing to universal con~uest, ai~d n~ider our
in~n~aenlate king, a universai Christian empire ~vil} surely
prevail.'
ART. YTI.-WA6 A')fl~i~i~(t~ Co7~~r~ (6~(i M~c A~flcYic(()1 P~~~ ~~. b~y NoAll PORTER, D. 1)., Protbssor iii Yale College.
New ilaveii, Conn.: Charles Cliatfield & Co.
EDVeATION is a woH~ consisting of several stages, which necessarily direr greatly fron~ one another. It iiiciudes all that is
due to tlie culture and direction of all the niei~tal aiid bodily
po~-ers of children, of youth, and of nien and ~-onien, as ~-eIl
as their eqaipinent for professional life. Tlie style of teaching ~`bich is best for a child niay he unsuitable for tlie boy of
fifteen or sixteen; aiid the young irian between twenty and
tweiity-five has reacJ~ed hy natural growth a stage at ~liicli
lie is less capable of prolltii~g by drill, and better prepared to
apprehend abstractions and generalizations, and to orgaiiize
practical knowledge.
Obvious as this fact niust see'~ when n~entioned, tlie overlooking of it lias occasioned ilie principal ditllcalties in botll
the theory and practice of education. One plan treats
children at school on the principles snited to tlie college
another carries tlie niethods of tlie school into tlie treat~nent
of young inen; and a third confounds school, college, and
nuiversity in one. Objectioiis i-nay be raised to tlie distinctive use of these nanies, and u~any will u~ake iio difference
* Our readers ~ln judge how far a~~y part of the fore~oin_ article needs qual.
ifiving in tlie light of the Tientsin massacre, il~e a'ithcntic details of wbid~ have
been received since it was in type. A masterly description end atialy~is of ti0Ct
barbaro~~s slaughter, by Dr. ~1artiu, of Glijun, has been publisl~ed iii a late number of tlie ~The J%oi'k Feuoge1f~t.