516 EDUCATION 



have trained their youth to think in it. Only those religions that 

 have not greatly obstructed this method of reaching truth have 

 been associated with growing civilizations. Only those sciences 

 have become interpretative in which it has been systematically 

 recognized and followed. The races that have been barbarous, the 

 religions that have caused stagnation and disorder, the systems of 

 education that have been futile, the sciences that have been cock- 

 pits of factions and tumbling grounds of whimsies, the armies that 

 have been defeated in war, the individuals that have laboured in 

 vain these have all owed their misfortunes to lack of thorough- 

 ness in thinking ; that is, to an insufficient testing of suppositions, 

 and, therefore, to an incomplete survey of the facts. 



