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of the electors. He was content to address several 

 public meetings, and leave the result to the interest 

 he could awaken amongst his hearers. His views 

 were further brought before the public by the action 

 of the editor of the Contemporary Review, who, before 

 the election, " took upon himself, in what seemed to 

 him to be the public interest," to send to the news- 

 papers an extract from Huxley's article, " The School 

 Boards : what they can do, and what they may do," 

 which was to appear in the December number. 



In this article will be found (Coll. Ess. iii. p. 374) 

 a full account of the programme which he laid down 

 for himself, and which to a great extent he saw carried 

 into effect, in its fourfold division of physical drill 

 and discipline, not only to improve the physique of 

 the children, but as an introduction to all other sorts 

 of training of domestic training, especially for girls 

 of education in the knowledge of moral and social 

 laws and the engagement of the affections for what 

 is good and against what is evil and finally, of 

 intellectual training. And it should be noted that 

 he did not only regard intellectual training from the 

 utilitarian point of view; he insisted, e.g. on the 

 value of reading for amusement as " one of its most 

 valuable uses to hard- worked people." 



Much as he desired that this intellectual training 

 should be efficient, the most cursory perusal of this 

 article will show how far he placed the moral training 

 above the intellectual, which, by itself, would only 

 turn the gutter-child into "the subtlest of all the 



