OLD MURRAY BAY 



worthy the name, is only maintainable by 

 jealously shielding every reasonable liberty 

 of the individual; that the true measure of 

 civic progress is the humblest citizen's sense 

 of responsibility to the State, and the surest 

 mark of retrogression the number and 

 stringency of the legislative command- 

 ments imposed upon him. What corner 

 of this unquiet earth offers in greater de- 

 gree civilization's only three indispensable 

 gifts — Justice, Security, Toleration? Shift- 

 ing the nautical figure from hold to tackle, 

 a Canadian could scarce frame a better 

 wish than that the Dominion's sheet-anchor 

 may not drag in coming times of storm. 



Education makes steady advance. Few 

 of the elder generation can read or write, 

 few of the younger are unlettered. On 

 this head I allow myself the pleasure of 

 borrowing the opinion of an habitant, who, 

 a penniless boy, fought for a little reading 

 writing and ciphering, with what happily 

 accompanies these in Quebec, a schooling 

 in manners and morals. For that wider 

 education of which culture, the faculty of 

 detachment, a toleration of differing views 

 and of those holding them are the ripest 

 fruits, he had nothing but admiration. 

 His doubts concerned what lies between 

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