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which has not only prepared a man to escape the 

 great evils of disobedience to natural laws, but has 

 trained him to appreciate and to seize upon the re- 

 wards, which Nature scatters with as free a hand 

 as her penalties. 



That man, 1 think, has had a liberal education 

 who has been so trained in youth that his body is 

 the ready servant of his will, and does with ease 

 and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it 

 is cai)able of: whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic 

 engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in 

 smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, 

 to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the 

 gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; 

 whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the 

 great and fundamental truths of Nature and of 

 the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted 

 ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions 

 are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the 

 servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to 

 love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to 

 hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. 



Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had 

 a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a 

 man can be, in harmony with Nature. He will 

 make the best of her, and she of him. They will 

 get on together rarely; she as his ever benelicent 

 mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, 

 her minister and interpreter. 



"Where is such an education as this to be had? 



