352 On the Educational Uses of Museums. 
and suggestively illustrated,—wherein the memorials 0 IS- 
t e neighboring province and the races that have peopled 
to fame. When that good time comes, true-hearted citizens will 
decorate their streets and sqnares with statues and memorials of 
the wise and worthy men an ho have adorned their 
province, not merely of kings, statesmen, or warriors, but of phi- 
losophers, poets, men of science, physicians, philanthropists and 
great workmen. How often in travelling through our beautiful 
country do we not feel ashamed of its towns and cities, when we 
seek for their ornaments and the records of their true glories and 
find none? How ugly is the comparison that forces itself upon 
our minds between the conduct of our countrymen in this re- 
spect and that of the citizens of continental towns? A traveller 
need not go far through the streets of most foreign cities without 
seeing Statues or trophies of honor, serving at once as decora- 
tions and as grateful records of the illustrious men they have pro- 
duced,—reminding the old of a glorious past, and inciting by &* 
ample the young to add to the fame of their native soil. 
My picture may seem a dream; but I have faith sufficient 10 
England and Englishmen to believe that in the course of time It 
imagination of an ancient Briton, he might have hoped for its 
realization in another world, scarcely in this. But a simple belie 
in the probability of State and people advancing in intellectual 
aims and true civilization, and working them out through the 
length and breadth of the land, is essentially too wholesome an 
compatible with the progress of Christianized human nature, not 
to find an embodiment in a coming reality. 
