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and find him charming. His little legs are slender as broom- 

 sticks, but they are in thick black hose, and the red kilt attracts 

 the eye. We look at that and are satisfied. He is active and 

 noisy. We take it for granted that he is getting on finely. 

 Were he in the bath-tub, we should think otherwise. Later, 

 Jack goes to college. He breaks down. His mother says it is 

 overwork. But this is not the truth. The truth is that he has 

 not the brain power to cope with normal intellectual tasks. The 

 fault is elsewhere than with the curriculum. In all this, the 

 image cast by prudery makes us horribly unscientific. Worse 

 still, it makes us hopelessly vulgar. 



These are but two out of a large and bad company of images 

 which to-day obscure the reflection of science in education. They 

 make difficult the recognition of the simple fact that the child is 

 an organic unity ; and they make practically impossible the de- 

 velopment of any system of education based upon this truth. So 

 long as we allow this obscurity, and persist in this blindness, we 

 shall have no science of education, however many schoolhouses 

 we may build, for we shall be steadily doing violence to a princi- 

 ple which may not be violated the sequence of cause and eft'ect. 



ECONOMIC USES OF NON-EDIBLE FISH. 



By ROBERT F. WALSH. 



FEW people are aware of the important uses to which non- 

 edible fishes can be put, and fewer -still have any idea of the 

 thousands of millions of such fishes that are to be found along 

 the coast of the United States. What some of these uses are 

 will be learned from the following statement of Prof. G. Brown 

 Goode, in his article on American Menhaden in Part V of the 

 Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 for 1887. He says : " Millions of pounds of fish not fit for human 

 food are allowed every year to escape from nets into the sea, 

 which, if saved and rightly utilized, would be worth untold sums 

 for fertilizers and feeding purposes. Of the fish saved and used 

 for fertilizers, a large portion is ill prepared." And he continues, 

 "A large part of that which is well made is exported to Europe, 

 where its value is better understood and its use is more rational 

 and profitable." Following these statements Prof. Goode says 

 that " the total loss to our agriculture from all these sources is 

 not capable of accurate computation, but certainly amounts to 

 hundreds of thousands and doubtless to millions of dollars an- 

 nually." But there are other uses to which these millions of 

 fishes can be profitably applied ; so that the value of our available 



