50 GLAUCUS; OR, 
strength which they had gained by loch and moor. 
But it is not so with their sons. Their business 
habits are learnt in the counting-house; a good 
schoo], doubtless, as far as it goes: but one which 
will expand none but the lowest intellectual faculties; 
which will make them accurate accountants, shrewd 
computers and competitors, but never the originators 
of daring schemes, men able and willing to go forth 
to replenish the earth and subdue it. And in the 
hours of relaxation, how much of their time is 
thrown away, for want of anything better, on fri- 
volity, not to say on secret profligacy, parents know 
too well; and often shut their eyes in very despair 
to evils which they know not how to cure. A 
frightful majority of our middle-class young men 
are growing up effeminate, empty of all knowledge 
but what tends directly to the making of a fortune ; 
or rather, to speak correctly, to the keeping up the 
fortunes which their fathers have made for them; 
while of the minority, who are indeed thinkers and 
readers, how many women as well as men have we 
seen wearying their souls with study undirected, 
