It is necessary to make our observations systematically:
we should have, in the immense multitude that we know,
that which would furnish most, valuable data. The re-
sults of different educations are every where found in the
spirit so strongly characterized in religious sects, in that
which determines the several professions, notwithstanding
the late period at which men ordinarily embrace them.
It is also right to suppose that if we better knew the gen-
eral customs among all nations, of raising children from
the earliest age, we should find in a great measure the
diversity of national character explained, and that the ef-
fects justly attributed to the differences of climate and of
race, would appear of small importance compared to those
of education. The misfortune is, that they tell us always of
the methods, and never of the good or bad success of their
experiments. They tell us very eloquently what they
have done, but not whether they had reason to do it ; and
among all who have arrived at the age of manhood, we
forever reiinain ignorant, which have been systematically
educated.
