be trained to conduct a system of simultaneously exercising and cultivating the whole powers of the child. The same Sympathy produced in the use of the gallery and the playground, which peculiarly fits the Training System for large towns, has been found equally efficient in small towns and rural districts; and that not only for children of the lowest rank, but for every class of society, however high or varied the branches taught may be. The Moral Training School may therefore be considered not merely a carrying out of family training into school, but, in conjunction with it, the great desideratum for training up the rising generation 'in the way they should go.' The distinguishing or peculiar features of the system may be considered to be, Picturing out in words, and Moral Training, and that it is not merely suited for infant, or juvenile, or adult pupils, but for children of all ages on the same principle, from the age of two or three up to manhood-commencing with the broad outlines of every subject, and followed progressively by the minuter points, on the same natural principle as the portrait painter follows, who never finishes the mouth or the eye, or any of the minute features, until the outlines of the whole person are fully developed. In drawing out this Treatise, my greatest difficulty has been, to condense into any intelligible form a subject so vast and important as the cultivation of the child,' and to compress within the compass of a manual what a folio volume would scarcely elucidate. Such a manual as the present may be useful, and even necessary; lecturing on its principles is also useful; but without actual practice no man can become a trainer. This publication makes no pretensions to literary refinement; my sole object has been, simplicity, and the intellectual and moral elevation of our degraded and sinking population. The present edition is greatly enlarged, but in order to meet the convenience of students, schoolmasters, parents, and all who ought to take an interest in the momentous question of popular education and training, the price has not been increased. As the primary steps or rudiments of all education are decidedly the most important, the practical examples and lists of lessons presented are chiefly intended for the first three or four years of the course of training, so that the pupils may have a broad and solid foundation laid in every department. I believe the system will be found to be based on nature, physical science, and Scripture; and my prayer is, in humble dependance on the Divine blessing, that such a system may continue to spread far and near, and its schools become nurseries for the Church of Christ, and in conjunction with family training, and other means, prepare the rising generation for social virtue here, and happiness throughout eternity. JANUARY, 1850. OUTLINES OF THE SYSTEM AND OBJECT IN VIEW, Sunken, Sinking, Uprising and Wealthy Classes, 48. Ragged Schools, 51. Moral Training Schools required for Glasgow, 53. Agricultural Schools, 56. Effects of Moral School Training in a Destitute Locality, 59. Inability of Parents to Train their Children Morally in Towns, 61. Pastoral Visitations, 62. Sab- |