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138 TRAVELS
CHAPTER VIII.
Lnfiitutions for the Purpofes of Education in Sweden: Parifh Schools,
Public Schools, Gymnafia, and Univerfities—Account of the Uni-
verfity of Lund—The Profeffors and Students: the Method of
teaching, and the Things that are taught—The Univerfity of Upfala
-—Some Intelligence of the individual Charatter of feveral Profeffors
— The Univerfity of Abo—General Remarks on the Swedifh Uni-
verfitiec—Guflavus HI, enters the Prince Royal at the Univerfity
of Upfala.
HERE is certainly no country in the world in which greater
provifion has been made, and more pains taken for the ad-
vancement and diffufion of knowledge among all claffes of fociety,
than in Sweden: a proof at once of a liberal and enlightened turn
of mind, and of that refpect for the dignity and rights of human
nature, which compenfates to rude climates the want of many
bleflings enjoyed in more genial and productive regions. That
this praife is not beftowed on the Swedifh nation without rea-
fon, will appear from a general view of their inftitutions for the
purpofes of education and inftruction, which are known by the
names of {chools, gymnafia, and univerfities.
Every parifh has its fchool, in which the common rudiments of
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