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6. will never be very useful in it. He who has Ideas floating on the surface of his mind, and who is not accustomed to analyse them, to reduce them into a right order, to combine and to compare them rightly, may go showishly enough through the ordinary affairs of life: but He who is to act as well as judge in the most extraordinary and the most arduous, must be taught, if I may so say, not only what to think, but how to think: the conduct of his understanding must be so directed that no Sophisms may impose upon Him, and that He may be able to discern the truth that is latent under every disguise.

Let us mention another consideration that deserves our notice; the necessity that every Man should learn accurately the language of his own Country before He is obliged to speak and write in it upon frequent occasions in publick life. This has been too much neglected, and instances might be brought of those who could not spek in their Mother Tongue, when they were applauded for their knowledge of other Languages. This defect is to be laid deservedly to the account of those who instruct, not of the Persons committed to their instruction.

We ought to suppose that He who arrives at the second period of Education has acquired during the first some general deletion knowledge /deletion addnotions/add of the History of Mankind. These notions may be improved by further reading; but there is a part of History which is to be studied with singular care and attention and not only to be read, by all those who may be called to the administration of Public Affairs, and above all by him who is to be the Master of these, by the Prince himself.

The Part deletion to which this /deletion of History to be thus studied is that of the Country He is born to govern, and of those Countries He with which He must have a continual note + intercourse /note of one kind of or other by reason of their proximity or of the