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schools is not the real, genuine, unadulterated article, and it would be 

 a dishonest teacher who would put forth any such claim. It is impos- 

 sible to foresee, as we have said, all the necessities that arise, and are 

 likely to arise, in the course of business experience, and they abso- 

 lutely require, when they obtrude upon the regular course, the judg- 

 ment of a mind that has been accustomed to coping with difficult situ- 

 ations where a failure to devise a remedy at once meant an utter 

 failure of the entire work. 



But one of these qualifications must, in the order of things, pre- 

 cede the other, and we are confronted with the question, Which shall 

 it be? 



Theory that is, the comprehension and understanding of whatso- 

 ever we undertake is the foundation upon which practice may build ; 

 theory will necessarily acquire the mechanical ability to put its ideas 

 into shape by a reasonable amount of practice ; but practice, though 

 it be of years, does not by any means guarantee theoretical or even an 

 intellectual appreciation of the results that labor accomplishes, and 

 without this what can be expected from the mechanic ? We certainly 

 should not ask for improvements from a man who does not understand 

 the foundation principles of the mechanical part of his work. Start- 

 ing with a fairly good technical or theoretical education, one grapples 

 with the problems of business more intelligently and, in most cases, 

 more successfully. If one chance to become an employer, he can util- 

 ize the practice of his employes to demonstrate his theories, and often 

 will this theorizing, and the thoughts created by an early technical 

 education, suggest means for lightening, simplifying, and improving 

 the labor that practice had failed to find an opportunity of modifying. 



THE EEMEDIES OF NATITEE. 



By FELIX L. OSWALD, M. D. 

 CLIMATIC FEVERS. 



IFE is a sun-child ; and nearly all species of plants and animals 

 -L^ attain the highest forms of their development in the neighbor- 

 hood of the equator. Palm-trees are tropical grasses. The python- 

 boa is a fully developed black-snake ; the tiger an undiminished wild- 

 cat. With every degree of a higher latitude, Nature issues the rep- 

 resentatives of her arch-types in reduced editions reduced in beauty 

 and longevity, as well as in size and strength. 



The human animal, however, seems to form an exception to that 

 general rule. For the last two thousand years, nine out of ten inter- 

 national wars ended with the victory of northern nations over their 

 southern neighbors. The hegemony of commerce and superior civili- 



