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every-day duties, you may some day be forced to pay ten 

 dollars to satisfy the wants that the dollar's worth of edu- 

 cation will have created ! 



But there is another side to this argument ; not only 

 does education increase our wants, but if a due pr^oportion 

 of it be of the practical kind, it, in nearly or quite the same 

 ratio, increases our ability to earn. 



It makes us of more value to the world, for which the 

 world will cheerfully pay us. * We may thus earn more, 

 spend more, enjoy more. We may elevate ourselves, by 

 so much, above the level of the brute. A symmetrical 

 education simply increases a man's capacity for doing and 

 enjoying. It doubles him, quadruples him; enables him to 

 give more to the world and receive more from the world ; 

 makes him occupy a larger place in the universe. 



If the education is truly symmetrical — if there is 

 physical development, brain development, and heart devel- 

 opment, it lifts him away from the brute and up towards 

 God. 



But in all this I speak of that education which is best 

 adapted to a man's wants, ever keeping in mind the occu- 

 pation or profession by which he proposes to serve humanity 

 and gain a livelihood. 



It must be borne in mind while discussing this subject 

 that the educational field is immense. A life-time may be 

 devoted to a survey of the merest corner of it. Zoology, 

 botany, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, language, — 

 either of these subjects, the average mind cannot master in 

 three score years and ten. Therefore, let it be granted that 

 an education is desirable for all, and still the question 

 remains : In what corner of the broad field shall the farmer, 

 the merchant, the lawyer, labor ? Shall they, hand in hand, 

 laboriously travel over 1;:hat part of the field where Greek 

 roots once grew, and then, turning to the barnyard, together 

 snuff the gases arising from the manure heap in the effort to 

 detect the presence of escaping ammonia ? Or shall the 

 lawyer devote his early years to the study of those branches 

 best adapted to the development of linguistic powers, while 

 the farmer devotes his time, for the most part, to the ac- 

 quirement of such knowledge as will be of practical utility 

 to him in his hfe-work ? How much time shall the farm.cr 

 devote to language ? How much time shall the lawyer 

 devote to agricultural science ? How much time can the 



