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upon to act as monitor in each of the different sections in turn. Therefore I introduced a mixed method; and I would recommend it as combining the several advantages which should be desired.

3. Use of our Course of Language in Families.

Some parents teach, or have their children taught at home, in order to keep them under their own eye; and our educative course is also intended for their use.

What will be wanting in this domestic education is the stimulant of example, or emulation, in the sense in which we use the word. In one family there will hardly be more than two children who can be advantageously taught together; a boy, and a younger girl, because of the greater precocity of girls in general. But there is a way of enlarging this little school; and it has been tried successfully in some countries. Every family has relationships of kindred or acquaintance with others in its neighbourhood, in which there are children of the same standing. Here then are the materials for a little school, and the means of putting more life into the exercises.

In my view, it would be all the more easy to form this little school, because at the early age of the pupils, I should have no objection to combine the two sexes in it. I know that some are of opinion that they cannot be too early separated; but I think I can quote a higher and better authority than that of man: that of the Creator, who has placed the brother and sister side by side in the same family, in order, doubtless, that they should be brought up together, and should mutually gain by intercourse. While passions are yet dormant, as at this early age, there can be no more danger in associating acquaintances of different sexes in our schools, than brothers and sisters at their homes.

And now I cannot conclude my work without commending it particularly to the attention of mothers. It has, I think, a special claim on their favour, because it connects itself with the mother's instinct which first sug

gested it; and because it undertakes to complete her work by calling in the aid of the art of education.

Mothers who wish to carry on the work, which they began when they endued their children's lips with speech, will find in our course of language the helps required for their noble task. And this introduction will also enable them to discharge with fuller knowledge, those duties which are nearest their heart, but which they have not been as well instructed in as they would have wished. And here, too, they will find the hints for the commencement of their work, and for preparing the ground for the instruction that will follow. I have then the sweet consolation of believing that this treatise will be useful to them; and now I rejoice at its conclusion in this conviction.

THE END.

LONDON:

HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

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