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man's calling or some similar occupation. And as a 

 head-master of one of London's Elementary Church 

 Schools recently expressed it to me: "The County 

 Council Scholarships are an absolute waste of public 

 money and the boys are not benefited by them at all. 

 Far better," he said, " not to have made them discon- 

 tented with a lot from which it is impossible for them 

 to escape." After the community has made this expen- 

 sive effort to raise them to a higher standard, 

 they sink again to the level in which they were born 

 and to the station to which their congenital attributes 

 inexorably anchor them.* 



Unconscious of their own defects, noting only 

 that men with other modes of thinking and other 

 desires of living belong to another kinship in feather, 

 and remembering that once they were artificially 

 forced into that kinship, but omitting to see that 

 they have failed to remain within it, for lack of the 

 requisite attributes, we need not be surprised that 

 they go back again to their own class with an 

 embittered spirit, only to wage war on the community 

 which kindly but mistakenly endeavoured to force 

 them out of their natural position. " Qui delicate a 

 fueritia nutrit servum suum, postea sentiet eum 

 contumacem " is an aphorism worth remembering 

 in public as in private life."f 



* The letter of Mr. Bourne Benson, Chairman of the Council of University 

 College School, to The Times, of March, 1911, conveys the same information. 

 He says the scholars " are compelled in the end to earn their living in some 

 humble employment of lower status and of less remuneration than the work 

 they would have been likely to obtain, if they had devoted the same ability 

 and the same time, at less than half the expense, to learning a trade." 



f " He that delicately bringeth up a servant from a child shall find him 

 insolent at the last." Francis Bacon. The Advancement of Learning. 

 Second Book. 



