1 68 Additional Remarks, &c.

fubjoined the following tetraftic ; which allowing it not to flrike out a ipark of good poetry, emits a ray of fome good fenfe. " All youth and elde that reafon's lore Within your breaftes will plant to trade ; Of numbers might the endles ftore Fyrft underftand, then further wade." Conformable to this rule of inftrucliion was the opinion of Dr. Johnfon, as communicated by Mr. Bofwell [/]. He allowed very great influence to education. " I do not deny, fir, but there is fome original difference in minds; but it is nothing in comparifon of what is formed by education. We may inftance the fcience of Numbers, which all minds are equally capable of attaining ; yet we find a prodigious difference in the powers of different men, in that refpecl:, after they are grown up, becaufe their minds have been .more or lefs exercifed in it." As this difquifition was opened, fo it mall be clofed, with the obfervation of the fame learned and judicious writer, trufting that the intervening remarks may afford a little amufement to the mem- bers of a Society, whofe province it is to take care that not any lamp of fcience mail ever be extinguifhed [], and to whom, with becoming deference, thefe fcintillations of Arithmetick are addreff- ed, by their faithful and humble fervant, Wilmington, SAM. DENNE. March 25, J797- [t] Life of Johnfon, V. II. p. 321. Non Extinguetur. Motto to the feal of the Society. XII. Copies