Man in the -Light of Evolution 



as life goes on, unless smothered and forgotten 

 through our neglect. 



Over against this priceless inheritance, for 

 every one of us is born to a kingdom, stands 

 education in the broadest sense of the word, 

 including all means of stimulating growth and 

 development. Nature is the great educator, and 

 framed her bill of compulsory education long 

 before man arrived on the globe. Life and ex- 

 perience are the great teachers, and the world 

 is the school of this grand system from which 

 we are never graduated. School and college are 

 only human devices, artificial institutions, to 

 make good the deficiencies of, and to prepare 

 the child and youth for, this grander training. 

 Says Professor Huxley: "That man, I think, has 

 had a liberal education who has been so trained 

 in youth that his body is the willing servant of 

 his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the 

 work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; 

 whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with 

 all its parts of equal strength and in smooth 

 working order, ready, like a steam engine, to 

 be turned to any kind of work, and spin the 

 gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the 

 mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge 



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