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THROUGH SWEDEN. 155
putations, ftill maintain their ground, yet much of induftry and
genius are employed in the cultivation of real {cience, and the pur-
{uit of objets which are of great importance and utility. 3d. That
a very proper degree of eafe and familiarity appears to fubfift be-
tween thofe who teach and thofe who are taught; and that the
former are ever ready and defirous of conveying information in the
moft perfpicuous and effectual manner to their auditors: they in-
vite them to ftate their doubts and difficulties, to put queftions,
and even to name any author they with to be explained, or fubject
they with to be difcuffed.* 4th. It is peculiar, as far as I There
been informed, to the Swedifh univerfities, to admit fencing and
dancing into the number of the polite or liberal arts. In this the
Swedes are inthe right. Both are evidently reducible to principles
and theory, and can therefore claim the title of art. The dignity
of dancing, which may juftly be reckoned among the imitative
arts, as well as mufic and painting, is very ably maintained and
illuftrated by the late celebrated Dr. Adam Smith, in his pofthu-
mous Effays on Philofophical Subjects. It is obferved by the
Doctor, among other particulars on this fubject, that the conned-
* In almoft all the advertifements in the annual catalogue we meet with fuch
declarations on the part of the profeffors as thefe: ‘* Privatim ea tractabit que
<¢ ftudiis auditorum convenerint’’—‘‘ Privatam operam auditorum defideriis ac-
«¢ commodabit”—** Nec non defideriis commilitonum in ceteris ftudii hiftorici
‘‘ Jocis ut poterit, privatim fatisfaciet’—* In explicatione facri alicujus libri
‘« hiftorici, quem adpetierint auditores, ftudiofe juventuti infervire conabituy’—~
«¢ Auctorem Grecum, quem defideraverint futuri auditores, explicabit”—‘* Che-
«‘ miam docens, defideriis hon. commilitonum, omni, qua poteft, diligentia et
‘ fidelitate, f{uam accommodabit operam,” &c. &c,
QP) Ing
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