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cess which we must try to simplify and shorten, but by 

 no means render unnecessarily toilsome and complicated. 



From the man with ten talents, ten talents must be 

 required. If some teachers in subservience to the red- 

 tape principles of the official world are afraid of the 

 responsibility attached to the propagation of new ideas 

 at anyrate the press has nothing to be frightened of ; it 

 may incur the reproach of being liberal or retrograde or 

 prejudiced, but cannot be accused of ignorance for its 

 attempts to lighten the linguistic toils of youth. 



Science must employ all means to open the secret 

 treasures of nature to boys while they are young, 

 in order that the pupil on attaining manhood may be 

 in a position to apply his knowledge and to adapt 

 his labours to the needs of our mother earth, for this 

 is a real responsibility which, try how he may, he can 

 not escape. 



If the aim of nature in forming man is that he might 

 comprehend and fulfil her laws, and extend the know- 

 ledge of them all around, then nations as unions of hu- 

 man beings must not admit either actively or passively 

 that the lives of individuals 'should be destroyed by such an 

 agency as war. Every government is bound to struggle 

 with all its might against epidemics and infectious disea- 

 ses of every kind, is bound to prevent famine with all 

 its evil train of consequences, is bound to care for the 

 incapable and sick and powerless and most specially lor 

 the young. At the same time it must offer no encoura- 

 gement to idling or those dissipations which breed 

 diseases. 



The first thing which governments and states should 

 lay to heart is, as I said, the education of the children 

 especially of the waifs and strays No government, as 

 a body representing a social alliance of people has a 

 right to deny education to the young, whose parents 

 themselves are unable to supply that need. At the first 

 glance the orphan appears a natural bulwark of that 

 government which feeds and educates him. Without 



