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Mathematics are, perhaps, too much studied at our universities. This seems a science, to which the meanest intellects are equal. I forget who it is that says, 'All men might understand mathematics, if they would.'
The most methodical manner of lecturing, whether on morals or nature, is first rationally to explain, and then produce the experiment. The most instructive method is to shew the experiment first; curiosity is then excited and attention awakened to every subsequent deduction. From hence, it is evident, that in a well formed education, a course of history should ever precede a course of ethics.
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