APOLOGY

FOR

Dr. Freeman

Face the

Auther

NEW PRINCIPLES

IN

EDUCATION.

BY JONATHAN WARE.

We are disposed to ascribe so much power to these obstructions to intellectual originality,
that we cannot help fancying, that if Franklin, had been bred in a college, he would
have contented himself with expounding the metres of Pindar, or mixing argument

with his port in the common room; and that if Boston had abounded with men

of letters, he would never have ventured to come forth from his printing-
house, or have been driven back to it, at any rate, by the sneers of the
critics, after the first publication of his essays in the Busy Body.
Edinburgh Review, July, 1806.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY JOHN H. A. FROST.

1818.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.

District Clerk's Office-to wit:

B year independence

E it remembered, that on the third day of October, 1818, and in

America, JONATHAN WARE, Esq. of the said district has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Apology for New Principles in educa"tion, by Jonathan Ware. We are disposed to ascribe so much power "to these obstructions to intellectual originality, that we cannot help 66 fancying, that if Franklin, had been bred in a college, he would have "contented himself with expounding the metres of Pindar, or mixing "argument with his port in the common room; and that if Boston had "abounded with men of letters, he would never have ventured to come "forth from his printing-house, or have been driven back to it, at any "rate, by the sneers of the critics, after the first publication of his essays "in the Busy Body.-Edinburgh Review, July 1806." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and "books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times "therein mentioned;" and also An Act, entitled, "An Act supple❝mentary to An Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learn"ing by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors "and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; "and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving " and etching historical and other prints."

66

J. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

A true Copy of Record,
Attest J. W. DAVIS, Clerk.

PREFACE.

THE faculties of the human mind are developed in this order; first, sensation, then memory and judgment, and lastly the heart or imagination.

These faculties of mind are interwoven with each other: Now the analysis of any thing is easier performed by reversing the order of nature, or putting the last, first.

The present essay, as the first of four in a new theory of mind, therefore, is the analysis of the conscience or heart. This, which is a faculty more isolated from the other three, than either of them is from the rest, can be treated more independently. It will by its own analysis afford an introduction to the understanding of the other faculties.

The simplest production of nature is at least of three dimensions, all created or produced at once. In describing these, man is confined to one at a time, a description therefore, as a copy, always comes short of the original.

In delineating the faculties of the human mind, and in entering on any one of them, there is a necessity of presupposing in the reader a large acquaintance with those, which in the description are postponed. A definitive judg ment of that first entered upon, must be reserved till the whole subject has been considered.

The other divisions of this subject, that is, judgment, memory, sensation, are reserved for separate works or numbers, in the order here named.