JB/149/198/001

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Preface

From the determination to employ the requisite mental
labour, in addition to the requisite pecuniary means, in
the endeavour to apply the newly invented system of
instruction, to the higher ulterior branches of useful Learning,
following the necessity of forming framing a scheme of instruction,
for the School, in which it was the proposed that the
experiment should be tried made.

From the necessity of framing this scheme, followed the necessity of making a selection of such among the various branches
of learning, art-and-science-learning, as well as language
learning included.

From the necessity of making this selection,
followed the necessity of taking a comprehensive
view however slight, and unavoidably rapid hasty, view survey of the whole
field.

In the course of this survey, several ideas
presented themselves, some of which, some had for some 40 or
45 years been lying dormant, others were brought into
existence by the occasion: and whichappearing to afford a promise
of being, in some degree, capable of being rendered
conducive to this subservient to the present design, were, after enquiry among
books and men, supposed to have in them more
or less of novelty as well as use.

Introduced, though necessarily in a very abridged
form, into the present collection of papers, they, will,
it is hoped, be productive of one effect – nor will it be
deemed an irrelevant one – viz: the contributing to produce,
in the breasts of the persons concerned, whether in the
persons character of parents and guardians, or in the character of
contributors to the fund necessary for the institution of
the proposed experimental course, the appearance that, on
the part of the proposed Conductors, howsoever it may
be in respect of regard to ability, neither zeal nor industry are
wanting: and that, having undertaken for the applying
to the best of their ability, to this higher in some respects superior purpose, the
persons according

Identifier: | JB/149/198/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1815-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	198	Info in main headings field	chrest.
Image	001	Titles	preface
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50052
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