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full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to 

 come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender 

 conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether 

 of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect 

 others as himself. 



Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal 

 education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in 

 harmony with Nature. He will make the best of her, 

 and she of him. They will get on together rarely; she 

 as his ever beneficent mother ; he as her mouth-piece, her 

 conscious self, her minister and interpreter. 



