AS RELATED TO INTELLECT. 47 



In educating the mind, accuracy is one of the 

 most desirable traits to be developed. Yolumes 

 have been written that are worthless for lack of this 

 element. We feel no safety in consulting them. 

 Fine intellectual powers have yielded no valuable 

 results in the labors of a lifetime, because not di- 

 rected by habits of accuracy in every undertaking. 

 A mind that rests on suppositions is never to be 

 trusted by others, and can never satisfy its possessor, 

 if he have keenness enough to understand his own 

 defect. We all feel the power of this in every pur- 

 suit. We wish to trust life and fortune with the 

 accurate men. And if we would give to those whom 

 we educate the highest mental culture, they must be 

 taught to scan every relation, and mark the minutest 

 bearing of every subject brought under their con- 

 sideration. This may be a natural gift to a favored 

 few, but to the majority of men it comes only by 

 careful training. In every branch of study chosen 

 for its educating power, this characteristic of securing 

 accuracy in every mental process is considered of the 

 highest importance. And from the whole range of 

 studies in the most liberal course, we challenge the 



