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an ascendency and degrade institutions that ought 

 to be noble and truly handmaids to religion into 

 vehicles of irreligion, impiety, scepticism, and sedi- 

 tion. The very contrary is their legitimate result. 

 The discoveries of Herschel do not lead men to 

 disbelieve in God, nor do the compositions of 

 Handel act as hindrances to the singing of His 

 praise in worship." 



I should like to have quoted more from this 

 paper on " National Adult Education/' but perhaps 

 enough has been said to show that the writer's 

 views on that important subject were in advance 

 of the time at which he wrote. Taken as a whole, 

 his ideas seemed best to correspond with those 

 which at the present time are being carried out 

 under the High School movement in Denmark 

 with such excellent results. The aim of that 

 movement is not to prepare the young people for 

 examinations, which in this country can hardly be 

 dissociated from the idea of education, but rather 

 to enlarge and humanise their minds, to create 

 new and healthy tastes, to brighten their lives, 

 and to put before them higher aims and altogether 

 more invigorating objects than they would other- 

 wise have in the midst of their daily occupations 

 and callings in life. 



Before leaving Nafferton he issued a farewell 

 address to the inhabitants, as he had been accus- 

 tomed to do in parishes that he had previously 

 left. After taking affectionate leave of his parish- 

 ioners, he thus ends what he has to say : 



