100 Outlook to Nature 



is any bar to the highest flights of thought ; 

 and it is strange that any person in these days 

 should regard Greek as the one preeminent 

 source of power. All education should lead to 

 culture and to power. 



Education for power. 



How can a man's mind be trained ? It can 

 be trained by being employed in some definite, 

 integrating, and consecutive effort. It matters 

 little what the subject-matter is : if the mind is 

 employed effectively, it will be able to make a 

 still more effective effort. Many of the old 

 subjects train the memory chiefly and their 

 results are superficial. 



" Reasoning power " develops by use. This 

 power ought to be as effectively used by rea- 

 soning from problem to solution in biology or 

 physics or agriculture or engineering as in 

 formal philosophy and logic. A man can be 

 trained to think just as accurately by means 

 even of agricultural subjects as by conventional 

 subjects, provided the agricultural subjects are 

 as well systematized and equally well taught. 



