THE

MADRAS SCHOOL,

OR

ELEMENTS OF TUITION:

COMPRISING THE

ANALYSIS OF AN

EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION,
MADE AT THE MALE ASYLUM, MADRAS;
WITH ITS FACTS, PROOFS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS;

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

EXTRACTS OF SERMONS PREACHED AT LAMBETH;

A SKETCH OF A NATIONAL INSTITUTION

FOR TRAINING UP THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR;

AND

A SPECIMEN OF THE MODE OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
AT THE ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM, CHELSEA.

By the Rev. Dr. ANDREW BELL,

F. As. S: F.R.S. Ed. Rector of Swanage, Dorset;
Late Minifter of St. Mary's, Madras; Chaplain of Fort St. George; and
Director and Superintendent of the Male Afylum at Egmore.

"Mofes chofe able men out of all Ifrael, and made them heads over the peo-
ple, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
tens."-Exod. xviii, 25.

"Quod enim munus reipublicæ afferre majus meliufve poffumus, quam fi
docemus atque erudimus juventutem? His præfertim moribus atque tem-
poribus, quibus ita prolapfa eft, ut omnium opibus refrænanda atque
Boercenda fit."-CIC.

"Pueri efferuntur lætitia cum vicerint? Ut padet victos? Ut fe accufari
nolunt quam cupiunt laudari? quos illi labores non perferunt, ut æqua-
lium principes fint?"-Cic.

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1808.

OF THE

DIVERSITY

I

SHOULD be wanting in grateful duty to your GRACE, as well as in honest justice to my subject, if I were to alter a word in my addrefs on a former occafion, bearing date 5th February 1807. What was then prophecy is now history.

"In the distinguished privilege of prefenting this Effay to your GRACE I feel a gratification, which words cannot exprefs. My every wish in regard to my Syftem of Education is fulfilled. The boon, which I had heretofore deftined for general diffusion in future ages, feems