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inent of the whole liumanity, uot merely of some 

 arbitrarily chosen part of it. How to feed the 

 imagination with wholesome food, and teach it to 

 despise French novels, and that sugared slough. 

 of sentimental poetry, in comparison with which 

 the old fairy-tales and ballads were manful and 

 rational ; how to counteract the tendency to 

 shallow and conceited sciolism, engendered by 

 hearing j^opular lectures on all manner of sub- 

 jects, which can only be really learnt by stern 

 methodic study ; how to give habits of enterprise, 

 patience, accurate observation, which the counting- 

 house or the library will never bestow ; above all, 

 how to develop the physical powers, without en- 

 gendering brutality and coarseness, — are ques- 

 tions becoming daily more and more puzzling, 

 while they need daily more and more to be solved, 

 in an age of enterprise, travel, and emigration, 

 like the present. For the truth must be told, that 

 the great majority of men who are now distin- 

 guished by commercial success have had a train- 

 ing the directly opposite to that which they are 

 giving to their sons. They are for the most part 

 men who have migrated from the country to the 

 town, and had in their youth all the advantages of 

 a sturdy and manful hill-side or sea-side training ; 



