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novel and unusual description use in a School. are intended to 12. They supply materials, which I recently engaged to procure, for elementary experiments in Chemistry and Electricity - branches of Knowledge quite unfamiliar to the Chinese, who, as your Lordship is aware, are still confined to studies within the limits of the abstract writings of their ancient sages, deriving from thence little more knowledge applicable to the present external world, than the youth of England would derive from the exclusive study of the Proverbs of Solomon.
3. It has from the first occurred to me that it would be possible to awaken a new, hitherto undeveloped sense in the Chinese youths of the Central School by the exhibition of some of the marvellous, yet simple illustrations of the Laws of the Physical world. Thus it is impossible to foresee how far illustrations given of the application of Electricity to transmitting instantaneously the thought and feelings of man over the desert - together with ... beneath the ocean -