OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: BEING A SELECTION FROM HIS ORATIONS AND OTHER BY EDWARD EVERETT. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS 1856. tion of the Author's orations, published in that year. Those of subsequent date have never before been collected. The speech made at the School Convention, at Taunton, has never appeared in a separate form; ✓and the remarks at the School Convention, at Tisbury, are now for the first time published. The addresses, which have before appeared, have been subjected to a careful revision, for this edition, especially with a view to their adaptation for youthful readers. Several of the marginal references and other explanations have been made for their information, by the intelligent and accurate Supervisor of the publication, Mr. JOSEPH W. INGRAHAM, to whom the Author feels himself under great obligations, for the care with which the Volume has been carried through the press. The Glossary, an important addition to the Work, will, it is believed, be found to contain a more than usual amount of valuable information. The Volume is now respectfully dedicated to the rising generation of the country, with ardent wishes for their improvement, virtue, and happiness. An Address delivered before the Adelphic Union Society of THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MECHANIC ARTS, An Address delivered before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, September 20, 1837, on Occasion of their first Exhibition and Fair. Substance of Remarks, made at the County Convention of the Friends of Education, held at Tisbury, on the Island . 397 EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE. THE CIRCUMSTANCES FAVORABLE TO LITERARY IMPROVEMENT IN AMERICA.* MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN,-IN discharging the honorable trust, which you have assigned to me, on this occasion, I am anxious, that the hour, which we pass together, should be exclusively occupied with those reflections, which belong to us, as scholars. Our association in this fraternity is academical; we entered it, before our Alma Mater dismissed us from her venerable roof; and we have now come together, in the holydays, from every variety of pursuit, and every part of the Country, to meet on common ground, as the brethren of one literary household. The duties and cares of life, like the Grecian states, in times of war, have proclaimed to us a short armistice, that we may come up, in peace, to our Olympia. On this occasion, it has seemed proper to me, that we should turn our thoughts, not merely to some topic of literary interest, but to one which concerns us, as American scholars. I have accordingly selected, as the subject of our inquiry, THE CIRCUMSTANCES PECULIARLY CALCULATED TO PROMOTE THE PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT, AND TO FURNISH THE MOTIVES TO INTELLECTUAL EXERTION, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In * An Oration, pronounced at Cambridge, before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, August 26, 1824. |