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cate that it is not education which lies at the bot- 

 tom of the matter ? 



Once more, these people, whom there is no 

 pleasing, venture to doubt whether the glory, 

 which rests upon being able to undersell all the 

 rest of the world, is a very safe kind of glory 

 whether we may not purchase it too dear ; especi- 

 ally if we allow education, which ought to be 

 directed to the making of men, to be diverted 

 into a process of manufacturing human tools, 

 wonderfully adroit in the exercise of some techni- 

 cal industry, but good for nothing else. 



And, finally, these people inquire whether it is 

 the masses alone who need a reformed and im- 

 proved education. They ask whether the richest 

 of our public schools might not well be made to 

 supply knowledge, as well as gentlemanly habits, 

 a strong class feeling, and eminent proficiency in 

 cricket. They seem to think that the noble foun- 

 dations of our old universities are hardly fulfilling 

 their functions in their present posture of half- 

 clerical seminaries, half racecourses, where men 

 are trained to win a senior wranglership, or a 

 double-first, as horses are trained to win a cup, 

 with as little reference to the needs of after-life in 

 the case of the man as in that of the racer. And, 

 while as zealous for education as the rest, they 

 affirm that, if the education of the richer classes 

 were such as to fit them to be the leaders and the 

 governors of the poorer ; and, if the education of the 



