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18 Apr 1815 Chrest. Tab.II Particular branches
Geometry
Purely Verbal

As to the giving facility to conception, by this advantage, should
it in any degree be found included among the effects of the proposed mode
not only in the instance of each Scholar would the labour be allocated
and expenditure of time by diminished, but in a greater degree than impudently to experience
would perhaps be expected,
the numbers of
the Scholars reaping from
this part of the instruction
—

Given in a Grammar School mode the old and
still subsisting mode, large in the p according to an amount and mass an
amply experienced hinders+, in the proportion of Scholars, by whom + Mr Pillams
third Principal
Master of the High
School Edinburgh. See
his Letter Appendix
—
at the end of a long series of years willingno efficient at
learning is obtained. It Larger again by far among
those by whom after years spent in the endeavour are substantial benefit
would be increased
in side part to infuse learning in this shape in the other to 25
By the facility given
to conception, labour
would be lightened, time
saved, number of real
learners increased.
Mr Pilllam. in a
Grammar School
many go through
without imbibing
any real instruction.
Probably still more
are either repelled
from Geometry by its
forms, or dragged
through it without
profit
imbibe it, in efficient of it is obtained. Under
tended the name of the Asses's bridge, the 5th proposition in the
very first book of Euclid is the person stumbling block
the one place ultra to many a labouring mind. Why?
- are because to the purpose of whose conception to the
purpose of efficient instruction the method traced out by
Euclid and followed blindfold for so many
by his
successors is so lamentably incompetent. In the Chrestomathic
School, it may be presumed with some confidence,
theirs will be no Ass's bridge.

The Asses Ass's bridge having thus prosecuted itself
to view, the opportunitytemptation of exhibitingaffording this additional test,
of the utility of the purely verbal expression maximizing 26
Witness the Ass's
Bridge.
In consideration of
the general action
expressed by this
naming, this proposition
has been added
in the Exemplification
given in the Appendix
principle, seemed was too strong to be resisted. not to be neglected. To the
labour of giving expression in this mode to the Euclids
first proposition that of giving has accordingly been
added in the Appendix the corresponding like labour applied
to that 5th proposition called the Ass's bridge.

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Date_1	1815-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	25-26
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
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