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which has not only prepared a man to escape the 

 great evils of disobedience to natural laws, but has 

 trained him to appreciate and to seize upon the re- 

 wards, which Nature scatters with as free a hand 

 as her penalties. 



That man, I think, has had a liberal education 

 who has been so trained in youth that his body is 

 the ready servant of his will, and does with ease 

 and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it 

 is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic 

 engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in 

 smooth working order ; ready, like a steam engine, 

 to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the 

 gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; 

 whose mind is stored with a knowledge 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 vigorous will, the servant of 

 a tender conscience ; who has learned to love all 

 beauty, whether of Nature or of- art, to hate all 

 vileness, and to respect others as himself. 



Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a 

 liberal education ; for he is, as completely as a man 

 can be, in harmony with Nature. He will make 

 the best of her, and she of him. They will get on 

 together rarely : she as his ever beneficent mother ; 

 he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minis- 

 ter $nd interpreter. 



Where is such an education as this to be had ? 



