Excerpt from Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection From His Orations and Other Discourses This Volume contains a selection from the orations and speeches delivered by the Author, on various pub lic occasions, within the last sixteen years. Although most of them refer to the subject of Education, in some one of its numerous aspects, it cannot be expected of the collection to form a systematic Whole, exhibiting the unity of a single treatise. AS several of them were delivered on occasions of precisely the-same character, there is a repetition of some of the ideas and illustra tions, scarcely to be avoided, under the circumstances of the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.