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bryo, safely insulated, and secretly schooled in a 

 special environment of its own; walled up in egg-shell, 

 nest, or uterus; shut off from the minor incidents of 

 the outer world; locomotion and practically all other 

 movements, or functional responses to outside stimu- 

 lants prohibited; subject to a constant, prescribed diet, 

 and subject to the fixed chemical and physical condi- 

 tions essential to its growth. 



To this rigid, intra-cameral discipline of the se- 

 questered embryo is added from time to time through- 

 out the ascending scale a larger and larger measure 

 of parental care, and social guidance, which extends 

 over longer and longer periods. When the embryo ul- 

 timately breaks the walls which held it in solitary con- 

 finement, and as larva, tadpole, or infant escapes, it 

 is only to enter a larger school, under the broader shel- 

 ter of parental care, and with the greater freedom of 

 parental and social discipline; and thence, still tread- 

 ing a fixed, invisible maze, it is led by instinct and lured 

 by sense, up to the still larger freedom of maturity; 

 into the larger cage of life, barred by circumstanding 

 death. 



5. The Compulsion of Intelligence. In the 

 higher animals and in man, these compulsions are still 

 expressed by life itself, in its more intricate self-sav- 

 ing, or intelligent reactions to them. Intelligence then 

 becomes the medium of compulsion to righteous action ; 

 truth and knowledge, the agencies of that compulsion. 



6. Discipline in Civic Government; in Religion; 

 and in Science. No man can escape the directive dis- 

 cipline established for him by the evolution of life at 

 large; nor from the more particular discipline imposed 

 upon him by the momentum of social growth. The re- 



