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Every opportunity for intellectual advance to be 

 accorded to all by means of a constant environment of 

 the best thoughts of the best minds of the past and the 

 present in the form of access to literature and lectures 

 on every kind of literary and scientific lore. By this 

 means the general intelligence and culture is raised and 

 the individual is enabled to make more of his abilities 

 and capacities, and in this way serve the State better. 

 The knowledge of the best thoughts of the best 

 minds tends ever to elevate the soul of man and help 

 onwards his spiritual evolution ; for to quote again 

 the greatest prophet of the nineteenth century — 

 Thomas Carlyle, whom may we all bear ever in most 

 reverent memory : " All intellect, all talent is in the 

 first place moral — what a world were this otherwise ; 

 therefore the Good alone is deathless and victorious." 

 So that an atmosphere of culture serves a double pur- 

 pose — and the highest of all purposes — in helping on 

 the ethical evolution in process among men. Like all 

 other evolutionary processes, this is necessarily of slow 

 growth. Hence the need by every possible means to 

 augment all agencies which have helped or can help 

 towards the Final Goal. 



That eminent man, Lord Morley, in an address 

 delivered at Blackburn recently, quoted the Arch- 

 bishop of York to the effect that an educated man was 

 a man who knew the difference between knowing and 

 not knowing. It is not easy to discover this by any 

 means, and that is why we must all endeavour not only 

 to study observed phenomena, but we must learn how 

 to study and weigh the conclusions which we draw. 

 Lord Morley went on to extend his definition of the 

 educated man, quoting another prelate to the effect 

 that he was a man with a clear view of some purpose 

 running through life, with which he identified himself 

 and tried to co-operate. An educated man, among 



