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ford and Cambridge, and trained to professional or literary careers. 

 Such a result does not react favorably ujDon the artisan class. The 

 scholarship boys return no more to their homes, and the gulf is widened 

 between the spheres from which they came and those to which they 

 go. Says Magnus, " I very much doubt whether the nation gains 

 much by sending these children into the already overcrowded paths 

 that are open to the university students." This loss of the best minds 

 and the lack of the results of a generous education do much to keep 

 down the estimation in which the working-classes are held, and throw 

 the elements of society out of their proper balance. 



Here is whei-e the influence of manual training will be most bene- 

 ficial. It will bring into the manual occupations a new element, a 

 fairly educated class, which will greatly increase their value, at the 

 same time that it gives them new dignity. 



8. The Solution of Labor Problems. — Finally, I claim that the 

 manual-training school furnishes the solution of the problem of labor 

 vs. capital. The new education will give more complete development, 

 versatility, and adajstability to circumstance. No liberally trained 

 workman can be a slave to a method, or depend upon the demand 

 for a particular article or kind of labor. It is only the uneducated, 

 unintelligent mechanic who suffers from the invention of a new tool. 

 The thoroughly trained mechanic enjoys the extraordinary advantage 

 of being able, like the well-taught mathematician, to apply his skill to 

 every problem ; with every new tool and new process he rises to new 

 usefulness and worth. 



The leaders of mobs are not illiterate, but they are narrow, the 

 victims of a one-sided education, and their followers are the victims 

 of a double one-sidedness. Give them a liberal training, and you 

 emancipate them alike from the tyranny of unworthy leaders and 

 the slavery of a vocation. The sense of hardship and wrong will 

 never come and bloody riots will cease when working-men shall have 

 such intellectual, mechanical, and moral culture that new tools, new 

 processes, and new machines, will only furnish opportunities for more 

 culture, and add new dignity and respect to their calling. 



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ARE SCIENCE AND AET ANTAGONISTIC? 



By M. M. GUYAU. 



A STORY is told of the poet Keats, that once after a dinner at 

 Haydon's, the English painter, he raised his glass and proposed 

 as a toast, " Confusion to the memory of Newton ! " When asked his 

 reason for offering this singular sentiment, the poet replied, " Because 

 he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow with his prism." 



