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Excerpt from Necessity of Popular Education, as a National Object: With Hints on the Treatment of Criminals, and Observations on Homicidal Insanity No distinction of ranks; but he will likewise, it is humbly hoped, see the limit defined, to which the education of every sane human being ought to be carried, in order to fit him for that place in the social system, and in the creation of God, for which he was called into being. With the dith dence becoming the attempt, and the deference due to his masters in the science of national economy, the author has ventured to propose a plan of po pular education for public approbation, and legisla tive adoption content if it shall move that discussion, by which it cannot fail to be greatly improved. He will be more than enough rewarded, too, if he shall succeed in reviving some share of interest in the neg lected subject of the philosophy of Man, and his rela tions to external things, without which the science of education must remain, as it has hitherto remained, incapable of practical application, and therefore a dis carded 'weariness. He repeats that the object presses, - that it is exciting anxious inquiry, - and that it is shortly destined to rouse the attention of the most careless and inobservant dweller in the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.