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1. Some short Notes concerning the Education of a Prince

Nothing can be of greater importance to any society of Men, than the Characters of those who govern, or who are to govern in it.

These Characters will depend almost intirely upon their Education, like those of the rest of Mankind. The rest of Mankind are good or bad, better or worse, according to the Education they have had, and the habits they have contracted in their Youth.

Princes, even those who are born in the purple, are by nature like other creatures of the same species, and their Education therefore becomes an object of the most serious attention to every one who lives his Country and wishes the general peace and happiness of Mankind.

These considerations may serve to justify the liberty taken of submitting the following notes to the judgment of those who have the sole right to approve or to condemn them.

A System of Education may be properly divided into two positions, the private and the publick.

A great part of the first must be employed to nourish and fortify the tender Infant, the rest to form the Man. The first has been generally reputed the proper object of Maternal, and the latter of Paternal