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upon the rewards, 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 minister and in- 

 terpreter. 





