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Education took this beastial, crude and ig- 

 norant Frankenstein horror by the clumsy 

 hand and kindly began to lead him on in ever- 

 gaining pursuit of the lofty ideal which alas 

 we yet see flitting before us in the brighten- 

 ing distance, illusive, fanciful, unattainable, 

 will 'o the wisp like, still. But nevertheless 

 no chimera, like poor Ponce de Leon's Foun- 

 tain of Youth, but a glorious reality, a lumi- 

 nous to-be of the glad time to come. 



And her kindly care. Mentoring a Tele- 

 machus, which began with Man's stormy ad- 

 vent on this troubling planet ; has never ceas- 

 ed, but has multiplied and multiplied, solici- 

 tously training the uncouth fingers of the un- 

 docile creature first to difficultly shape the 

 roughly-sharpened knife of wood ; next to fash 

 ion the weapon out of fractured bone or shell ; 

 then to discard these for laboriously ground 

 flint or stone; giving place, in turn, to more 

 durable bronze or copper and yet again to the 

 keener and harder iron or the tempered steel; 

 improving the quality, increasing the number 

 and extending the usefulness of her pupil's 

 weapons and tools. Enabling the civilizing 

 savage to exchange the damp, smoke filled, 

 gloomy, bone strewn cavern for the dry, ven- 



