y may bee made
able to exercise themselvs in everie good Employment afterwards by
themselvs, and as the Proverb is, _sine Cortice natare_. The true and
proper end of Colleges should bee to bring together into one Societie
such as are able thus to Exercise themselvs in anie or all kind of
Studies, that by their mutual Association, Communication, and Assistance
in Reading, Meditating and conferring about profitable matters, they may
not onely perfit their own Abilities, but advance the superstructures of
all Learning to that perfection, which by such means is attainable. And
the true and proper End of Universities, should bee to publish unto the
World the Matters, which formerly have not been published; to discover
the Errors and hurtfulness of things mistaken for Truths; and to supplie
the defects and _desiderata_, which may bee servicable to all sorts of
Professions.

Now according to those aimes and ends, I suppose it may bee inferred,
that none should bee dismissed out of the Schools, till they are able
to make use of all sorts of Books, and direct themselvs profitably in
everie cours of Studie or Action, whereunto their _Genius_ shall lead
them; and that none should bee admitted into anie Colleges, but such as
will join with others, to elaborate som profitable Tasks, for the
Advancement and facilitating of superstructures in things already by som
discovered, but not made common unto all; And that none should bee made
Publick Professors in Universities, but such as have not onely a Publick
aim, but som approved Abilities, to supply som defects and to Elaborate
som _desiderata_ of usefull knowledg, or to direct such as are studious,
how to order their thoughts in all Matters of search and Meditation, for
the discoverie of things not hitherto found out by others; but which in
probabilitie may bee found out by rational searching.

Thus then I conceiv, that in a well-Reformed Common wealth, which is to
bee subordinate unto the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, wherein the Glorie of
God, the happiness of the nature of man: and the Glorious libertie of
the Sons of God is to bee revealed; all the subjects thereof should in
their Youth bee trained up in som Schools fit for their capacities, and
that over these Schools, som Overseers should bee appointed to look to
the cours of their Education, to see that none should bee left destitute
of som benefit of virtuous breeding, according to the several kinds of
emploiments, whereunto they