PART II.

"It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed, which, if daily pursued, failed to prevail in the end."-THOMAS JEFFERSON.

"The chief art of learning, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated: the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions."-JOHN LOCKE.

"The effort to extend the dominion of Man over Nature, is the most healthy and the most noble of all ambitions.”-BACON.

INTRODUCTION.

In this PART, each SECTION will generally be independent in itself, without much reference to the character of its neighbors. Different things, to an extent, will be said: some of them, perhaps, in a different way.

THREE HOURS SCHOOL A DAY.

PART II.

110. It is a great lie, the pretence that the "common people," those for whom "Common Schools" are provided-can not learn all about the Philosophy of Matter, and all about the Philosophy of Mind. Yet such is-practically-the prevailing Opinion in the State of New-York. For is not all pretension to the study of Intellectual Philosophy, and of Moral Philosophy, now confined to what are denominated the "Higher” Schools?-the Colleges and Academics and Universities? Who now thinks of having anything which even pretends to be the Philosophy of Man, taught in the "Lower" Schools? If it were not for the fact, as a general thing, that the College and Academy and Normal School Professors, with their huge sheep-skin Diplomas, and the "profound" Library moths who give us works on "Mental" and Moral Philosophy, do not themselves know any thing of the Philosophy or