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their fellow-men, and to hate with all their hearts that 

 opposite course of action which is fraught with evil. 1 



Lacking this, intellectual training may be as produc- 

 tive of harm as of good ; reading, writing, and cipher- 

 ing may equip a youth for forgery, and training in 

 mechanics make him an expert burglar. In the year 

 before his election on the School Board, Huxley thus 

 summed up what in his judgment is comprised in a 

 liberal education : — 



That man, I think, has had a liberal education who 

 has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready 

 servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure 

 all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; 

 whose intellect is a clear, cold logic-engine, with all its 

 parts of equal strength and in smooth working order ; 

 ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind 

 of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the 

 anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with the 

 knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of 

 nature and of the laws of her operations ; one who, no 

 stunted ascetic, is full of fire and life, but whose pas- 

 sions 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 

 all vileness, and to respect others as himself. 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. He will make the best of 

 her, and she of him. They will get on together 

 rarelv : she as his ever beneficent mother ; he as her 



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mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and 

 interpreter. 2 



1 Coll. Essay \r, iii. p. 393. 2 Lay Sermons, p. 30. 



