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they have wonderful schools for lawyers, doctors, engineers, 

 farmer^, but strangely enough, they do not think of educating 

 their rulers. Everybody is taught to work for himself; nobody 

 is taught to work for the public good. They try to govern them- 

 selves without learning how to govern. They raise immense 

 sums of money for improving their cities, but much of it is 

 wasted or stolen because the rulers they elect are ignorant. It 

 is a strange and childish people '" 



But I think we are coming to the time when we shall recognize 

 the needs in our schools of a proper training in citizenship. I 

 wish, at this great celebration, when our minds are turned to the 

 subject of education and educational methods, that we might bear 

 this matter in mind; remembering that our nation cannot Uve 

 unless men are in some way trained in the knowledge of those 

 social relationships and awakened to that social sympathy which 

 lies at the foundation of democracy. 



We need to know how to produce wealth. That art is al- 

 ready pre-eminently ours; but we also need more and more to 

 know how the great power of wealth may come, by proper insu- 

 lation, to illuminate, not to destroy our lives. 



