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dogmatic fashion, with the broad laws of morality, 

 he has had no training in the application of those 

 laws to the difficult problems which result from the 

 complex conditions of modern civilisation. Would 

 it not be very hard to expect any one to solve a 

 problem in conic sections who had merely been 

 taught the axioms and definitions of mathematical 

 science ? 



A workman has to bear hard labour, and perhaps 

 privation, while he sees others rolling in wealth, 

 and feeding their dogs with what would keep his 

 children from starvation. Would it not be well to 

 have helped that man to calm the natural prompt- 

 ings of discontent by showing him, in his youth, 

 the necessary connection of the moral law which 

 prohibits stealing with the stability of society by 

 proving to him, once for all, that it is better for his 

 own people, better for himself, better for future 

 generations, that he should starve than steal ? If 

 you have no foundation of knowledge, or habit of 

 thought, to work upon, what chance have you of 

 persuading a hungry man that a capitalist is not a 

 thief " with a circumbendibus ? " And if he 

 honestly believes that, of what avail is it to quote 

 the commandment against stealing, when he pro- 

 poses to make the capitalist disgorge ? 



Again, the child learns absolutely nothing of 

 the history or the political organisation of his own 

 country. His general impression is, that every- 

 thing of much importance happened a very long 



