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Uses general
of Arts, Sciences,+
the other branches of
knowledge

1. To in quality
of sources of amusement
— innocent
and inexhaustible
affording a man
a never failing means
of filling up his
time in an agreable
manner.

2 Keeping a man
from drinking,
gaming, and other
pernicious or dangerous
amusements

3. Keeping a man
from quarrels.

4. Keeping a man
to the practise of
reasoning and the
habit of reflection
— Hence strengthening
the intellectual faculty
and increasing
its power over
the appetites and
the passions.

5. Softening a mans
temper, by keeping
it out of the way
of irritation.

6. Every additional
branch of knowledge
gives a man an
additional chance
for hitting upon that
which is best suited
to his circumstances
in the character
of a source of income
or of amusement.

1. Uses belonging to
Poetry in common
with the rest of the other
occupations of the
mind.

2. Uses not belonging
to Poetry

3 Prejudicial effects
resulting from the
attention to Poetry

1. Poetry A source of error
2. Poetry a source
of confusion in relation
to conceptions.
3. Poetry a source
of inflammation

Conclusion — that
it ought not to
be taught.

— Which will neither prevent it
from being read nor from being
written.

Its natural attractiveness
not a reason
for teaching it
but the contrary —
unnecessary to pay
a man for carrying
on a gainful trade.

Antiently, its real
uses were sufficient
warrants for
cultivating this employment
of the mind
in default of
the more useful ones.

Branches for which
there is little or nothing
to be in particular done in
the way of
with relation
to the method of
teaching
1. Botany
2. Zoology
{Tetrapodology
{Ornithology
{Ichthyology
{Entomology
3. Mineralogy.

Of this. little therefore
need be said
in this Prospectus

Uses correctional
in particulars of
Art &c.

1. Saving a man
from the reproach
of ignorance in comparison
of others in
his situation in life

2. Gaining for a man
preeminence and
reputation.

3. Subserviency to
the business of getting
a livelihood.

Botany — Uses of

1. Its subserviency to
Husbandry and Gardening

2. Affording an example
of method
methodical arrangement
and habituating
the mind to
the observance of it.

3. Qualifying a
man for the investigation
of native
plants — an innocent
and quiet species
of hunting.

Facienda for
facilitating the
learning of Botany

1. Putting the first
principles into memoriter
verses.

2. Making permanent
models (instead
of prints) of the parts
of fructification, & another
material parts

3. Printing the principles
on cards, like
playing cards, or making
them into games
like that of the Goose.

N.B. Habit a more
permanent and better
means of
recognizing a plant
after it has been seen:
but for want of being
indescribable, insufficient
for indicating a plant &
a man who has named
it.

Identifier: | JB/108/103/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 108.
Date_1	1795-10-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	108	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	education
Image	002	Titles	uses general of arts, sciences, & the other branches of knowledge
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35606
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