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intellectual genius and of creative art, be all 

 waiting for the better education of our boys 

 and girls, why not begin more fully its refining 

 novitiate? This nobler city is not that 

 around us, not that of the old-fashioned 

 economists, with their " necessities, comforts, 

 and luxuries," respectively adjusted for the 

 deterioration of lower, middle and upper 

 classes as the " populace, the philistines and 

 the barbarians " of Matthew Arnold's enduring 

 sarcasm but of life and industry reorganised 

 towards the uplift of them all. Art and 

 science, health and sanity, morals and citizen- 

 ship are all increasingly becoming seen to be 

 rooted in the realities of labour; and the 

 present lack or failure of them is seen to lie 

 in the commonly contrasted drudgery, ex- 

 ploitation and idleness which are the curse 

 of the existing classes. Thus there appears 

 the necessity of nature-education, and of 

 occupation-education, for one and all : and 

 hence it is that our boy-scouts and girl-guides, 

 with their present limitations, are in advance 

 of the traditional schools, with all their 

 advantages. For Baden-Powell is among 

 the prophets ; though that need not prevent 

 others from having their turn. 



With this approaching renewal of social 

 health, the much-needed remoralisation of the 

 sexes will correspondingly be advanced, and 

 this largely in the natural ways of simpler 

 communities thus abating our present anx- 

 ieties, perhaps even abating the necessity 

 of each of our purifying and even prophylactic 

 endeavours, urgent though we see all these to 

 be to-day. 



