46 CRITIQUES AND ADDRESSES, [n. 



grand one, will become as extinct as the dodo, in the 

 great towns. 



And then the moral and intellectual effect of drill, as 

 an introduction to, and aid of, all other sorts of training, 

 must not be overlooked. If you want to break in a colt, 

 surely the first thing to do is to catch him and get him 

 quietly to face his trainer ; to know his voice and bear 

 his hand ; to learn that colts have something else to do 

 with their heels than to kick them up whenever they 

 feel so inclined ; and to discover that the dreadful human 

 figure has no desire to devour, or even to beat him, but^ 

 that, in case of attention and obedience, he may hope fi 

 for patting and even a sieve of oats. 



But, your "street Arabs," and other neglected poor 

 children, are rather worse and wilder than colts ; for the 

 reason that the horse-colt has only his animal instincts 

 in him, and his mother, the mare, has been always tender 

 over him, and never came home drunk and kicked him 

 in her life ; while the man-colt is inspired by that very 

 real devi], perverted manhood, and his mother may have 

 done all that and more. So, on the whole, it may pro- 

 bably be even more expedient to begin your attempt to 

 get at the higher nature of the child, than at that of the 

 colt, from the physical side. 



2. Next in order to physical training I put the instruc- 

 tion of children, and especially of girls, in the elements 

 of household work and of domestic economy ; in the first 

 place for their own sakes, and in the second for that of 

 their future employers. 



Everyone who knows anything of the life of the 

 English poor is aware of the misery and waste caused 

 by their want of knowledge of domestic economy, and 

 by their lack of habits of frugality and method. I 

 suppose it is no exaggeration to say that a poor French- 

 woman would make the money which the wife of a poor 



