Excerpt from Analysis of a New System of General Education: In Which the Lancastrian Principles Are Discussed and Enlarged, in a Project for the Erection of a Grand Public Academy at Glasgow, to Be Supported by Public Markets in the Suburbs of That City, but Applicable to Every Large Town Certain occurrences, however, soon afterwards took place, which discovered to him the necessity a 2of taking a more extensive, and a more accurate View of his subject. He was gradually led to pay more and more attention to it, and to review his scheme in every light, and, at length, (the publica tion still going forward) to delineate a plan for the complete execution of his whole project, and to set forth those detailed descriptions, statements, and explanations, which the elucidation of his plan re quired obviating, with the utmost pains and solici tude, those objections which he perceived to be the most formidable, and conciliating all those views and interests, by which its motions could be afl'ect ed. Having thus ascertained, and exhibited the practicability of his plan m all its parts, he proceed ed to display its merits, its importance, and its great utility in the general economy of our affairs and to call the public notice to the subjects before him, in every different aspect. Thus the develope ment of his plan served as a vehicle for enabling him to throw upon his project, a variety of lights, and to introduce into it, a multitude of circumstan ces, all tending to illustrate his general scheme in its several branches, and to evince, in the fullest and clearest manner, at once its vast magnitude, and its complete subserviency to the public good. From the circumstances above stated, however, it could not but happen, that some discrepances would find their way into a plan thus rudely sketched, especially at the beginning, before the project was fully matured. These, however, are few in num ber, and altogether unimportant, and as they noways affect the general subject, they require no ex position whatever.
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