C.XrVI ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT [eth. ass. JO 



There are other occasions for oratory. There still remains 

 a field for the employment of oratory in religion, for the reli- 

 gious teacher nuist be an orator, and one day in the week is 

 set apart for religions instruction. The method of instruction 

 by this means has a long history, and through it mankind 

 have received a large share of their instruction, although in 

 modern times it has been employed chiefly in teaching morals. 



EDUCATION 



In modern society a distinct agency is organized for the 

 instruction of youth in addition to those included under the 

 terms nurture and oratory. This new instruction is education. 



In the highest civilization the years of adolescence, and 

 sometimes of eaidy manhood, are consecrated to education, so 

 that nuich of the time of iiidividual life is occupied in this 

 manner. A uudtiplicity of schools are organized, a host of 

 teachers are employed, buildings and apparatus are used, so 

 that the cost of education is rapidly advancing pari passu with 

 the growing appreciation of its importance. The theory and 

 art of ediu-ation are undergoing I'apid de^'elopment. We may 

 contemplate with surj)rise the development of manufacturing 

 interests; we may gaze with wonder at the development of 

 the agencies of transportation; we may consider with pro- 

 found interest the development of commerce and the modern 

 agencies upon which its highest stages de})end, but the wonder 

 of wonders is the development of modern agencies of edu- 

 cation. As human muscle is supplanted Ijy electricity, the 

 tallow di})s l)y the incandescent light, the coin l)y credit, so 

 tlie text-book is sujjplanted l)y the library, the teacher's rod 

 by the instructor's illumination, and the memorized word by 

 the informing idea. 



PUBLICATION 



In early times man}' manuscripts Avere written and important 

 ones were often copied, but altogether this method of multipli- 

 cation was infrequent. A new civilization began with the 

 events and discovei'ies that came upon the world about the 

 time of the discovery of America; in this epoch the art of 



