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dogmatic fashion, with the broad laws of morality, 

 he has had no training in 'the application of those 

 laws to the difficult problems w^hich result from the 

 complex conditions of modern civilisation. Would 

 it not be very hard to expect any one to solve a 

 problem in conic sections who had merely been 

 taught the axioms and definitions of mathematical 

 science ? 



A workman has to bear hard labour, and per- 

 haps privation, while he sees others rolling in 

 wealth, and feeding their dogs with what would 

 keep his children from starvation. Would it not 

 be well to have helped that man to calm the natu- 

 ral promptings of discontent by showing him, in 

 his youth, the necessary connection of the moral 

 law which prohibits stealing with the stability of 

 society — by proving to him, once for all, that it is 

 better for his own people, better for himself, better 

 for future generations, that he should starve than 

 steal? If you have no foundation of knowledge, 

 or habit of thought, to work upon, what chance 

 have you of persuading a hungry man that a capi- 

 talist is not a thief "with a circumbendibus?" 

 And if he honestly believes that, of what avail is it 

 to quote the commandment against stealing, when 

 he proposes to make the capitalist disgorge? 



Again, the child learns absolutely nothing of 

 the history or the political organisation of his own 

 country. His general impression is, that every- 

 thing of much importance happened a very long 



