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wages for a decent housemaid, or cook, or a fair 

 workwoman; and can by no means get what they 

 want. 



Surely, if the elementary schools are worth any- 

 thing, they may put an end to a state of things 

 which is demoralising the poor, while it is wasting 

 the lives of those better off in small worries and 

 annoyances. 



3. But the boys and girls for whose education 

 the School Boards have to provide, have not 

 merely to discharge domestic duties, but each of 

 them is a member of a social and political organisa- 

 tion of great complexity, and has, in future life, 

 to fit himself into that organisation, or be crushed 

 by it. To this end it is surely needful, not only 

 that they should l)e made acquainted with the 

 elementary laws of conduct, but that their affec- 

 tions should be trained, so as to love with all their 

 hearts that conduct which tends to the attainment 

 of the highest good for themselves and their 

 fellow men, and to hate with all their hearts that 

 opposite course of action which is fraught with 

 evil. 



So far as the laws of conduct are determined by 

 the intellect, I apprehend that they belong to 

 science, and to that part of science which is called 

 morality. But the engagement of the affections 

 in favour of that particular kind of conduct which 

 we call good, seems to me to be something quite 

 bevond mere science. And T cannot Imt think 



