The Ottawa Naturalist. [J 



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i of the mediocre intellect is to be thought respectable at anv 



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Why it should be thought more honourable to draw a plan 

 For laying bricks than to lay them ; why the carpenter and the 

 machir st si . cons idered ess honorable than thr physician 



and the lawyer s hard to understand except as an effect of false 

 educat:. :: 



In i88o William Morris, the best pupil of John Ruskin, and 



himself an ::an, said : " We no longer believe in a class 



tha r set apart. Every man has a divine call to mike 



hip- - to bis riows and the ha . a that some are 



ed to ( g g . advice, will soon fade away. Indus- 



.iucation is both moral and sp ritual. The man who fails to 



se s body eve in a certain amount oi manual labor is a 



the State and a danger to his inmosl self. Safety lies 



in -. st ba sen - .i and b 



. - cause keniog as it does that 



reft r will come vithin. I quote President Eliot, who recently 



said in a speecli e the Indepe it t Club of Buffalo : " I 



shall r. "il one half the curriculum at Harvard is 



stead of talkiog about them." 



a of manual training into our schools will do 



- -ation of the dignity of labour. It is not the 



;rmed that should measure the standing of an 



i :ne mar. . - which the d is performed. 



Her. s le ethical value of a mechanical hobby applies. It 



_ ror inJ s here and there what manual 



g ei ieavors tc . le - It s imulates the 



ual to attain ex:.- le ce r its satce and such an effort 



le reflecte reg ?n. 



The g le Me;hanical Hobby during the past 20 



rapid and v 5 is strated by the 



for am a:.- irs - , few and 

 dealers in su: - pplies .-e numerous and 

 to cater to the re. j rTients of the amateur 

 he amateur requires can be obtained quickly 





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