86 A LIBERAL EDUCATION 



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which has not only prepared a man io_ escape__Lhe_ 



f,f> JQatliml 1a.WQ j but lias 



trained him to appreciate and to seize upon the re- 

 wards7 which JN aturti scatters with as tree a hand 

 as her penalties. 



That man, I think, has had a liberal education 

 who has been so trained in youth that li 



the ready servant of Jijg wi!1 ; and does with ease 

 and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it 

 is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic_ 

 ejogine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in 

 smooth" working order ; ready, like a steam 



to be turned to a/py land nf work, ar^r) pp^n 

 gossainersa^s well as forge the anchors of t.hft 

 whose mind^is stored with a knowledge _o_tli<- 

 great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the 

 laws 01 her operations ; one who, no stunted ascetic, 

 is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained 

 to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of 

 a tender conscience ; who has learned to love all 

 beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate ftll 



' vilenosa^and to respectTothej^ fls himjsglf- 



Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a 

 liberal education ; for he is, as completely as a man 



"* can be, in harmony with Nature, tie will make 

 thebest of her, and sV^ nf Viija^ They will get on 

 together rarely : she as his ever beneficent mother ; 

 he as her- mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minis- 

 ter and interpreter. 



Where is such an education as this to be had ? 



