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ful in producing often thorough idleness and vacancy 

 of mind, parrot-like repetition and sing-song knowl- 

 edge, to the abeyance and destruction of the intel- 

 lectual powers, as well as to the loss and paralysis of 

 the outward senses, than our traditional study and 

 idolatry of language." 



Professor Half or d Vaughan. 



" Persons who have been fully educated, according 

 to the present system, come to me with the same 

 propositions as the untaught and stronger ones, be- 

 cause they have a strong conviction that they are 

 right. They are ignorant of their ignorance at the 

 end of all that- education. . . . Until they know 

 what are the laws of nature, they cannot clear their 

 minds of these, as I say, most absurd inconsistencies; 

 and I say again, that the system of education that 

 could leave the mental condition of the public body 

 in the state in which this subject has found it, must 

 have been greatly deficient in some very important 

 principle. ' ' Professor Faraday. 



" The models of the art of estimating evidence are 

 furnished by science ; the rules are suggested by 

 science ; and the study of science is the most funda- 

 mental portion of the practice ; . . . All men do not 

 affect to be reasoners, but all profess, and really 

 attempt, to draw inferences from experience ; yet 

 hardly any one, who has not been a student of the 

 physical sciences, sets out with any just idea of what 

 the process of interpreting experience really is." 



Mr. fohn Stuart Mill. 



