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...Petroleum V. Nasby, and, in fact, a more elaborate parallel might be drawn between the letters of the Confederate postmaster and this ostensible attack on innate ideas. But, not to make the analogy cruelly walk on five legs, it is enough to say that in his feuilleton Locke has adopted the plain unvarnished language of his prototype. But we must not be misled by the apparent openness of his style. While clear as a spring he is deep as the ocean, and we must read and reread, when the simplicity will resolve itself into the true philosophical confusion...
...probable that the Steward will adopt the suggestion published in the Magenta just after the assignment of rooms...
...besides this sort of instruction which would be the delight of the delicate, and the passe-temps of the indolent and the rich, as letters were at Rome, there should be other courses of study. When a government takes upon itself the national education of a people, it should adopt some system allowing full scope to diverse aptitudes, and should try to give satisfaction to all tastes. Above all, it should guard against giving instruction of a too recondite nature, too little adapted to practical things...
...Natural History at Penikese number nearly 150, though not more than a third of that number can possibly be admitted. The necessary buildings have been erected, but there is very little money left to carry on the institution; it is to be earnestly hoped that many States will adopt the proposition to provide for the maintenance of two pupils by a grant of $ 5000 or an annual subscription of $ 350. The school is to be open from July 7 to August 29. The corps of instructors numbers about a dozen...
...information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should not be taken up by senseless questionings. Overwork was perhaps the cause of his death. After his last lecture at Fitchburg he seemed completely exhausted, and wrote to discontinue some of his engagements; but he did not adopt this measure soon enough to give his system the rest it needed...