UNIVERSITY 



THE METHOD OF DARWIN. 



i. 



EDUCATION AND THE ART OF REASONING. 



TT is an opinion not uncommon among educa- 

 tors that a definition of education which 

 would cover all kinds of training is an impossi- 

 bility. Such a definition, as it widens for the 

 reception of manual training and the study of 

 Greek, kindergarten work and the post-graduate 

 course, certainly threatens to become " like a 

 circle in the water, which never ceaseth to 

 enlarge itself till by broad spreading it dis- 

 perse to naught." The difficulty in framing it 

 ha's apparently increased in recent years, since 

 the old standards of value in education have 

 had to struggle for existence with all the other 

 college and university studies. The old defini- 

 tion, "to lead out and train the mental powers," 

 is comprehensive enough for all purposes, for 

 it tells neither what the mental powers to be 

 trained are, nor how they are to be trained ; 



