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tional resources, and putting them under State management, somewhat on the 

 plan I recommended in a series of articles on education twenty -four years since, 

 then our'labor would be much lightened, and progress be much greater. We 

 ought still, however, to precede the studies at these schools by instruction to 

 the infant mind, as introduced by my father forty years since, and as now 

 practiced in parts of Germany, where mothers are relieved of the care of their 

 children during the day, and the infants play in well-arranged grounds and 

 gardens, where their attention is directed to the acquisition of many facts, with- 

 out any strain on the young brain. 



As our young men progress in the agricultural college they should be advised 

 to select the occupation they design to pursue, and make their chief studies 

 bear on that main object, the others being collateral. To those who select law, 

 and design by close study and forensic eloquence to take a prominent position, 

 we might impress many useful facts regarding the prevention of crime, showing 

 also that the chief object should be to correct vice, and prevent its evil effects 

 on society, rather than solely to punish the criminal, and that his duty should 

 be to allay, rather than augment any breach between neighbors. 



The youth who designs becoming a physician might be cautioned to study 

 nature, and aid his patients to recover health rather by the inculcation of correct 

 hygienic rules, than by a resort to powerful therapeutic agents. He should also 

 be led to see the vital importance of bringing his influence to bear against the 

 intermarriage of near blood relatives. 



On the future merchant or citizen selecting manufactures and the like, as a 

 source of wealth, let the lesson be impressed that wealth is a means, not an end 

 in life, and that happiness is never secured by selfishness. 



The politician should be cautioned against inordinate desire for distinction; 

 be taught that zeal should discuss principles, not lead to personal abuse; that 

 patriotism goes transcendently before partyism ; that office should seek us, not 

 we grasp at office; and that true liberty consists in having every man, after he 

 has heard the arguments, exercise the elective franchise without fear or favor. 



On the future expounder of the beautiful teachings of Christianity we cannot 

 too forcibly impress the necessity of conforming his own practice to the doctrines 

 inculcated; of preaching and living "peace on earth and good will toward all 

 men." He may impress, with all the enthusiasm his nature dictates, his own 

 doctrines and views on the mind of his i eighbor ; but let him beware of con- 

 demning the equally sincere convictions of that neighbor, leaving judgment to 

 the Omniscient Maker and Interpreter of divine laws, who alone knows the 

 most secret workings of the human heart. Let those whose praiseworthy aim it 

 is to become spiritual advisers, learn while young to practice that forbearance 

 which they claim for themselves, to extend forgiveness of enemies with the 

 fullest force of its scriptural inculcation, and daily to exercise that divine charity, 

 that celestial love, which is the connecting link between mortality and immor- 

 tality, the bond of union between finite man and his Eternal Maker. 



It may here be asked, after reviewing the subject, why, as one great object in 

 education is to develop a sound mind in a sound body, more has not been said 

 about physical training. The reply is : Solely because it was believed this sys- 

 tem would naturally furnish so much active out-door exercise, that it was un- 

 necessary to make a special business of taking exercise. The industrial system 

 and military drill, if properly carried out, would insure that good health, without 

 which all the rest is of no avail. 



Neither has much been said about the most important of all, the moral cul- 

 ture, because it was thought that a system which would make teachers and 

 taught trusting companions, which would induce each and all to investigate the 

 works of nature, to discover truth and nject error, to admire the design and 

 perfection exhibited in all the works of the adorable Creator, would be a solid 



