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where, the great fault of our education is to be found 

 in our present class system of instruction. Our de- 

 votion to the ideal of democracy, combined with our 

 loyalty to what we justly consider our greatest in- 

 stitution, our school system, has closed our eyes to 

 the real issue in the education problem; this, I re- 

 peat, is not a question of method or of curriculum, 

 but of the massing of children. 



" FOB! GOD IS GLORIFIED* IN MAN." 



There are those who maintain that in the course 

 of evolution the home must disappear that as an 

 institution it is archaic, having come down to us 

 from those primitive times when physical conditions 

 demanded close living for protection and warmth. 

 They say that the sanctity with which it has been 

 enveloped has kept it from evolving synchronously 

 with our other institutions, that its manners and 

 customs belong in consequence to a remote period. 



This may be true, but the time has not yet come 

 when we can afford to dispense with the home. In- 

 deed, it has an augmented significance for the par- 

 ticular stage of development through which we are 

 now passing. Not only does human nature need for 

 its idiosyncrasies the protecting shelter of the hearth- 

 stone, but human progress requires that it should 

 have that shelter. Now that Darwinism has given 



