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man can save his brother or give his soul a ransom for 

 him." Our more abundant courses of study, our wider 

 knowledge, may give more varied opportunity, may meet 

 more surely the individual taste; but the root of the 

 matter must still be the same ; the essentials of what any 

 course of training, not professional, does for a man, will 

 always remain what they have always been; they will 

 make for his development as a healthful, reasonable, self- 

 respecting, reverent, and in so far fortunate denizen of 

 the world. 



You will note that I say training not professional. 

 Professional training is special and aims to make a man 

 competent in one single particular. We all know what 

 this means, and this need not now be considered : but the 

 education that is universal, that should be accessible in 

 all our schools, that has for its sole and single object the 

 fitting of our youth for fortunate, peaceful living in a 

 civilized state, such education is in no sense professional, 

 altho it may be that professional studies, whether of law, 

 or medicine, or carpentry, or agriculture, may contribute 

 to its simpler purposes. Let us see now very briefly 

 what factors shall enter in as essential to that universal 

 training which varies not. 



In the first place, as the very foundation of all for- 

 tunate living in this world, I name what may be termed, 

 for lack of better terminology, the science of health. The 

 very first essential in all education is the knowledge of 

 what makes and keeps our bodily cleanliness and health. 

 No extended course of study, no wealth of equipment, no 

 palatial buildings or machinery can release from this 

 physical obligation. Here no doubt Nature will be to us 



