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can not afford to neglect. And all this work, if it is to lead to the 

 highest results, if it is to give us complete men and complete women, 

 must be constantly touched with emotion, with the sentiment of 

 kindness and love and unselfishness and justice and reverence. As 

 I conceive our human needs and human possibilities, the very place 

 where manual training, or rather a thoroughgoing organic training, 

 would be of the utmost use, is the very place where in our whole 

 scheme of secondary education it is found in the least measure — that 

 is, in our elementary schools. When the high school is reached, there 

 ought to be no change in the organic character of the work, but it 

 will be safe to introduce a limited amount of formal and abstract 

 study — geometry, algebra, arithmetic, grammar, history, civics — and 

 to make the science work somewhat more analytic and searching. I 

 must believe, both as a result of my experience with such measure 

 of organic education as our present manual training, in tool work, 

 music, and art represents, and as a result of my firm faith in the 

 continuous and unalterable operation of cause and effect — I must 

 believe, I say, that boys and girls under some such rational scheme 

 of organic education as I have outlined would come to the college 

 at eighteen, sound, vigorous, sensitive, well-equipped, magnificent 

 material out of which to frame magnificent men and magnificent 

 women. 



My own conception of life is avowedly that of an artistic and 

 moral possibility, and not at all as a commercial venture, I have 

 come to believe that the wealth of the world is human; that the 

 estimable things of life are personalities, are beautiful men and beau- 

 tiful women and beautiful children, and I am quite willing that the 

 scheme of organic culture which I am here advocating should stand 

 or fall with this artistic and moral conception of life. 



I believe most profoundly that the education which is to regener- 

 ate and redeem will be brought about by the setting up of permanent 

 changes in the organism itself, changes brought about by the motive 

 power of the affections, and through the cultivation of the senses, 

 and having for their end and purpose the realization of a high social 

 and moral and artistic ideal. And I believe, further, that in manual 

 training we have the open door to a more rational and thoroughgoing 

 education, and that we have only to enlarge manual training into a 

 more complete organic training to make it satisfy the educational 

 needs of the human spirit. 



A RING or circle of raised earth at Todmorten, Yorkshire, England, 

 which has been popularly regarded as a Roman camp, has, upon excava- 

 tion, been found to be a prehistoric burial place of the bronze age, and to 

 have contained at least six urns, with other relics. 



