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while the acquirement of the elements of music aud drawing 

 should have been a pleasure rather than work." 



He had not much to say for secondary or intermediate 

 education, partly because at that time, in England at 

 least, the secondary schools were in a hopeless state of 

 incapacity, and differed from primary schools not onl}' 

 in their greater expense, their adaptation to the class- 

 spirit which demanded the separation of the boys of 

 the upper and middle classes from those in the lower 

 ranks of society, but chiefly in the futility of the 

 education given at the majority of them. But where 

 intermediate schools did exist, he demanded that they 

 should keep on the same wide track of general know- 

 ledge, not sacrificing one branch of knowledge for 

 another. He held that the elementary instruction to 

 which he had referred embraced all the real kinds of 

 knowledge and mental activit}^ possible to man. The 

 university could add no new fields of mental activity, 

 no new departments of knowledge. What it could do 

 was to intensify and specialise the instruction in each 

 department. 



"Thus literature and philology, represented in the elementary 

 school by English aloue, in the university will extend over 

 the ancient and modern languages. History, which like 

 charity, best begins at home, but, like charity, should not end 

 there, will ramify into anthropology, archaeology, political 

 history, and geography, with the history of the growth of the 

 human mind and of its products, iu the shape of philosophy, 

 science, aud art, and the university will present to the student 

 libraries, museums of antiquities, collections of coins, and the 

 like, which will efficiently subserve these studies. Instruction 

 in the elements of political economy, a most essential but 

 hitherto sadly neglected part of elementary education, will 

 develop in the university into political economy, sociology, 

 and law. Physical science will have its great divisions, of 



