734' THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



coins, unadulterated and undefiled. With this point in view, 

 we ought to consider it a duty of paramount importance to 

 reiterate and ensure, so far as our power will extend, that 

 physical science, the most important and yet most neglected of 

 all studies, should be efficiently and intelligently and practically 

 taught in every educational institution, both to female and male 

 students. We would lay stress on the word taught as opposed 

 to the principle of examination, since there can be but little 

 doubt that examinations, when carried to excess, so far from 

 encouraging original research, probably do more than any other 

 necessary evil to retard and deaden and prevent real and living 

 interest on the part of the students of this generation. 



"Mr. Ruskin* says 'that the maximum of life can only be 

 reached by the maximum of virtue ' ; and in order to attain the 

 maximum of virtue it is clear that education is essential, not 

 only for the training of the mind into nobler channels, but for 

 the dissipation of the crude superstitions and empirical doctrines 

 of bygone ages — doctrines which narrow the range of thought 

 and stifle true scientific inquiry. 



*' In saying, then, that there is only a minority of people who 

 realise the facilities existing around them, we are not referring 

 so much to the immense benefits conferred upon each and all 

 ■who live in this century of advancement. No doubt that fact in 

 itself is a very great source of help, but we are now desirous of 

 laying stress on the more primary pleasures of the active life 

 •of bodily exercise, and on the practically illimitable resources of 

 nature which, so far from appreciating as we ought, many of us 

 in these days are becoming more and more forgetful of. The 

 ■difficulties in life, despite our very excellent means of transport, 

 arise largely from our immobility. The average human being 

 finds himself or herself in a certain place, and, strange to say, 

 very often experiences great aversion to a change of residence. 

 A great deal of misery springs from the fact that the right mau 

 or woman frequently cannot find the right place. 



*' For instance, in our colonies there is room for all those who 

 cannot succeed in England ; but two obstacles to setting matters 

 right are, first, the actual steps necessary to secure the transit 

 .across the seas; and, secondly, getting suitable employment 



* Ad valorem. 



