102 Outlook to Nature 



aloof from mankind. When only Greek- 

 minded men went to college, it was enough 

 that Greek was taught ; but now that physics- 

 minded and physiology-minded and farm- 

 minded men go to college, engineering and 

 physiology and agriculture also should be 

 taught. I do not suppose that there is any 

 way whereby an examination of the fiber of an 

 educated man's brain could reveal the means 

 by which the mind was trained. 



Liberal education. 



It is a favorite assertion that some education 

 is "liberal." So far as this word is merely a 

 name to designate a certain group of subjects, 

 no one can object; but if it is the inference that 

 other subjects are illiberal, then the statement 

 cannot go unchallenged. The fact is that the 

 older type of education is likely not to have a 

 liberalizing effect, because it not only confines 

 a man's attention to certain efforts that may be 

 narrow in themselves but often renders him 

 unsympathetic toward those who have not pur- 

 sued a similar course, and also toward affairs in 



