Excerpt from Illustrations of Mechanics
These are elements of a knowledge which is of inestimable value in the affairs of life; and the interests of this great commercial and manu facturing community claim that they should no longer be left to find their way to the young mind (if, indeed, they reach it at all) rather as a relaxation of the graver business of education than'as a part of it.
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