Excerpt from The Educational Magazine, Vol. 2WE have assumed it as the common doctrine of the different sects and parties among us, that Education is the principal and most available remedy for the Social Evils under which this country labours and we have endeavoured to ascertain, from the statements of persons generally at yariance with each other, what these social evils are, and, therefore, what education can be expected to meet them. But some of those who are most earnest in proclaiming Education as one of the medicines, per haps the most needt'ul, for our sick commonwealth, are also strongly of opinion that it will not be effectual unless another he applied at the same time. Our people, they say, at home must be instructed, but we must also persuade some considerable body of them to go abroad, we must colonize as well as teach. There may be a few who maintain in words, and more who believe secretly that the last of these methods is by far the most practical and decisive that education is a slow process, carried on under innumerable obstructions, but partially under stood, incapable of acting upon this generation, that colonisation is a direct means of removing a huge present evil. We have no wish to con trovert this notion, far less to slander the designs of those who are urging our countrymen to emigrate. We feel the force of their argu ments, and admire their zeal. Our object is to consider whether the two subjects may not have a very close relation to each other, whether the principles of education must not be studied in order that we may understand the principles of colonization, and whether, if it be so, there are any indications in the history of colonization as to the mode in which education may be most effectively connected with it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.