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perhaps it is the prejudice of scientific habit, 

 which leads me to think that it might be as well 

 to proceed from the known to the unknown. 



I Most of us, I hope, have tried their hands at self- 

 government; and those who have met with any 

 measure of success in that difficult art will, I 

 believe, agree with me that safety lies neither in 

 / the regimentation of asceticism nor in the anarchy 



1 of reckless self-seeking, but in a middle_j}unj;se. 



f Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and 

 a time to take one's own way at all hazards. 



A good many of us, again, have had practical 

 experience of the government of that elementary 

 polity, a family. In this business, the people who 

 fail utterly are, on the one hand, the martinet 

 regimentalists and, on the other, the parents 

 whose theory of education appears to be that ex- 

 pounded by the elder Mr. Weller, when, if .1 

 member rightly, he enlarged upon the advant; 

 which Sam .had enjoyed by being allowed to 

 roam at will about Covent Garden Market, from 

 babyhood upwards. Individualism, pushed to 

 */ anarchy, in the family is as ill-founded theoreti- 

 cally and as mischievous practically as it is in the 

 State ; while extreme regimentation is a certain 

 means of either destroying self-reliance or of 

 maddening to rebellion. 



When we turn from the family to the 

 tion of families which constitutes the StaU', 1 do 

 not see that the case is substantially altered. The 



