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Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 6: A Series of Papers, Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now; Among the Boys
B. By learning something of their intelligence and dispo sitiou, by ascertaining the nature and extent Of their know ledge; and then, supposing them to be poss'essed of the adequate knowledge, by ascertaining whether their habits and inclinations prompted them to act in conformity with what their knowledge recommended.
P. If the state of society were such that all adults were possessed Of abundance of wealth, and of the knowledge and habits requisite for making wealth minister to their well-being, the advice and exhortations needful for the young as they successively left our schools might be comprised in a very small compass.
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