284 SPARKS FROM A GEOLOGIST'S HAMMER. 



THE KEWAHWENAW METHOD. 



BY AN OPPONENT OF THEM LITTI RAEEFEL HERZ. 



Of all intellectual advances made in recent times, none 

 surpasses in importance the introduction of the Kewah- 

 wenaw method; none promises more for the well being of 

 properly regulated science, education in the three arz, 

 and free (and easy) institutions. The whole range of re- 

 cent history scarcely furnishes a parallel now standing in 

 full tide of beneficent success, unless it be the manufact- 

 ure of ensilage, or Per-redavy spanekil-her. True we 

 have had high expectations concerning other modern ideas, 

 which have been doomed to disappointment. I need only 

 mention Stefensbat Terry and the Winanseeg arsteemer, 

 to call to mind national calamities. The world was not 

 prepared for advances so great. Madam Hau's Bah-stun 

 bank promised a great deal, more, indeed, than any 

 other financial enterprise which has been set afloat; but 

 it could not contend against the envy and malignity of 

 those who had ideas of their own to promote. Madam 

 Hau's gift-enterprise was , crushed out in the most en- 

 lightened pah of Maui; and Madam Hau herself has been 

 followed by the most relentless legal persecution. This, 

 however, only shows that the Kewahwenaw method has 

 not 3"et thoroughly taken in all parts of our country. 



Of other great fruits of modern civilization still in the 

 shell, none promise more than the Kiele moat-her and the 

 Deless Epse bridge connecting the islands of Te ika a 

 Maui and Te wahi Punamu. It is to be hoped that the 

 rapid extension of the Kewahwenaw metliod, which is 

 more a great moral conception than an invention, will 

 save the Kiele moat-her and the bridge from that neglect 



