Social Environment 



of the great and fundamental truths of Nature 

 and of the laws of her operations; one who, no 

 stunted ascetic, Is full of life and fire, but whose 

 passions are trained to come to heel by a vigor- 

 ous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who 

 has learned to love all beauty, whether of Na- 

 ture or of art, to hate all vlleness, and to re- 

 spect others as himself. Such a man, and no 

 other, I conceive, has had a liberal education, 

 for he Is as completely as a man can be In har- 

 mony with Nature." Every reader will remem- 

 ber this " Address on Education " In which Pro- 

 fessor Huxley compares life to a game of chess, 

 and defines education as learning the laws and 

 moves of the game.^ 



In this grand system of education the home 

 plays a leading part. We hear that the family 

 Is disintegrating through frequent div^orces, and 

 that home training Is poor and Inadequate com- 

 pared with that of a century ago. We freely 

 admit that divorce Is far too common, and that 

 most fathers and some mothers are too much 

 occupied with the business of winning wealth 



1 See Huxley, T. H., " Lay Sermons, Addresses, and 

 Reviews," New York, 187 1. 



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