6 THE NEW METHOD 



and adorns and enlivens our homes, almost gratui- 

 tously, with the lineaments of a hundred familiar 

 faces. Another force is caught by the hand of science, 

 and bid to carry intelligence, swifter than light, from 

 continent to continent. Another is made subservient 

 by propelling our vehicles rapidly over every land 

 and every sea. So it is in all the arts and all the 

 sciences which give rise to art. We must extend the 

 knowledge of our predecessors and correct their 

 errors. Our errors will be corrected by our succes- 

 sors, and theirs by those who succeed them. 



In regard to the " grand experiment, " I will here 

 state that I have never used the word experiment in 

 speaking of the model classes. The experimenting 

 was all done years ago. Moreover, there has never 

 been much experimenting connected with the normal 

 system, for its principles are founded in the laws of 

 nature, and we have only to discover them as they 

 exist and always have existed there. Are not the 

 spontaneous processes of mental evolution, as we pass 

 on from early childhood to age, regulated by the im- 

 mutable laws of nature, as well as the growth of a 

 plant, or the revolutions of the planets? Give the 

 child lard instead of bread and alcohol instead of milk 

 and his body becomes diseased and soon dies, because 

 its treatment is abnormal. So it is with the mind. If 

 its treatment should be altogether abnormal those 



