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the instruction, but the culture most appropriate to the 

 conditions of his life. 



Within these walls, the future employer and the future 

 artisan may sojourn together for a while, and carry, 

 through all their lives, the stamp of the influences then 

 brought to bear upon them. Hence, it is not beside the 

 mark to remind you, that the prosperity of industry 

 depends not merely upon the improvement of manufac- 

 turing processes, not merely upon the ennobling of the 

 individual character, but upon a third condition, namely, 

 a clear understanding of the conditions of social life, on 

 the part of both the capitalist and the operative, and 

 their argument upon common principles of social action. 

 They must learn that social phenomena are as much 

 the expression of natural laws as any others; that no 

 social arrangements can be permanent unless they har- 

 monise with the requirements of social statics and dy- 

 namics; and that, in the nature of things, there is an 

 arbiter whose decisions execute themselves. 



But this knowledge is only to be obtained by the ap- 

 plication of the methods of investigation adopted in 

 physical researches to the investigation of the phe- 

 nomena of society. Hence, I confess, I should like to 

 see one addition made to the excellent scheme of edu- 

 cation propounded for the College, in the shape of pro- 

 vision for the teaching of Sociology. For though we 

 are all agreed that party politics are to have no place 

 in the instruction of the College; yet in this country, 

 practically governed as it is now by universal suffrage, 

 every man who does his duty must exercise political 

 functions. And, if the evils which are inseparable from 

 the good of political liberty are to be checked, if the 

 perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and 

 despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self- 

 restraining freedom; it will be because men will gradu- 



