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Note (11) to p.6

(11) Facility, as far as concerns the ideas to be communicated,
depends on vicinity to sense; as far as
concerns the learner, on the obviousness of their use:—
the nearer to sense, the less the demand for exertion;
the nearer to comprehended use, the less the pain of exertion,
because the more manifest the recompense. The
exercise of the judgment requires more attention, that is
more exertion, than the exercise of the perception, or of
the memory. Those branches of instruction may therefore
be made to take root the soonest earliest, which require
last exercise on the part of the judgment, and most on
the part of the perception and the memory. Those
branches of instruction stand nearest to sense, which consist in presenting
to the senses individual objects, or their imitations:
those stand remote, which have for their subject-matter
the operations of the mind. Natural history should
therefore be the first thing taught: grammar (a branch
of logic) among the last: viz: where it is taught, which
here it need not be. The ordinary use of grammar
is to preserve propriety of speech; i.e. that made of
speech which is habitual to mind characteristic of the superior classes: the
use of propriety of speech is to cause the speaker to be
considered as belonging to those superior class: the use of
this branch of instruction is therefore subservient to the faculty of pleasing
with reference to these classes, by saving a man from
being regarded among them as an object unfit
for their security. In each branch of instruction separately
considered, the order of facility, as between which
end article, of the subject matters of instruction, belonging
to that branch, is commonly observed: it is only as
between branch and branch (natural history for example
and grammar) that the order is distributed, to wit by
the influence of the causes above indicated.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	poor law
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field	heads
Image	001	Titles	note 11 to p. 6
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49924
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