8 14 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Now, I do not believe in this. I believe in wholeness, in health, 

 in vitality, in integrity, in goodness, in happiness. And I believe 

 that manual training should lead to these, should lead to them 

 inexorably. The same motive which makes me cherish manual 

 training the love of power, the love of perfection makes me 

 deny as its proper outcome any activity which disallows complete 

 manhood. So manual training opens the doors of activity in 

 all directions, only to declare that many of these doors are im- 

 possible. It consents only to those activities which, humanly 

 speaking, are worthy ; and the test of worthiness is not measured 

 in the economic terms of productiveness ; it is measured in the 

 terms of the spirit, in its effect upon the worker. I do not suc- 

 ceed in impressing this view of life upon all of our graduates. I 

 do not succeed in impressing it even upon a majority. But each 

 year it does claim a small company, a company who believe with 

 me that the most sacred thing about life is life, and who decline 

 to violate this sacredness by any petty spoliation of the days. It 

 does seem to us a tragedy that any young man, and particularly 

 any young man in America, where the opportunities for rational 

 living are so abundant, should deliberately elect a suicidal scheme 

 of life, some dull routine which is to curtail experience and limit 

 the universe to a daily round of sordid cares. Perhaps I should 

 not have said deliberately. They do not do it deliberately ; they 

 do it because they do not see. They do it because culture and the 

 ideal of life for which it stands have not taken hold of them ; be- 

 cause we who represent this view of life have not been sufficiently 

 active, insistent, loving, to win them over to our side. In any 

 case it is a tragedy, and one that I much deplore. When educa- 

 tion shall have done its perfect work, our boys and our men will 

 declare with Walt Whitman, in his Song of the Open Road : 



"Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good ft)rn]ne." 



And it is this to which I would have manual training lead, to the 

 rare good fortune of a rich and full existence. 



On account of the absence or loss, in fossilizing, of characteristic features, it 

 has hitlierto not been possible to give trilobites a fixed place in tlie zoological 

 system; they by turns have been classed with isopods, phyllopods, and arachnids. 

 Mr. H. M. Bernard, in his work upon The Apodidae, placed them in that family ; 

 but he confesses that, however weighty the argument in favor of that relation- 

 ship, the inability actually to demonstrate tbe existence of antennse was a felt 

 weakness. Recently some sixty specimens of the species Triarthrus Bechii were 

 found by Mr. Valiant in the Hudson Eiver shales, near Rome, N. Y., witli an- 

 tenna}, and have been described by Mr. W. D. Matthews in the American Journal 

 of Science. ^Ir. Bernard regards the presence, structure, and position of the 

 antennae as justifying and confirming his classification. 



