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establishments, and to send a supply also to foreign countries, 
without diminishing the supply of that higher order of men 
of lear nin g that have so long made Germany famous. In 
other Words, whilst we have failed with the most violent 
efforts and with much noise to teach our own, they have 
succeeded not only to teach their own citizens, but to assist 
in educating the rest of the world. In this matter of edu- 
cation, the Governments have been able to mould the 
nation’s mind, and to alter the habits of a leading portion 
of it in a very few years. A careful education would pro- 
bably show its influence in less than ten years. True, many 
questions arise; and we may ask if education would not 
smooth down the peculiarities of the national character, and 
prevent it trusting to individual will and genius. Pedantic 
education might do this, but training is certainly as requi- 
site in civil as in military affairs, and no one says that 
discipline diminishes the power of an army. It may be a 
question whether the uniform organisation of education in 
France is not calculated to produce too much equality in the 
minds of the nation, but it will certainly produce immense 
power in the aggregate. The numerous small states of 
Germany, each fostering its own schools and universities, 
seem best fitted to produce an intellectual activity. We 
see there, many universities, each developing its own pecu- 
liarities. They must make the nation more many-sided, and 
they have done so. At any rate, the present lesson seemed 
to be that the more intelligent part of a nation may be 
fashioned anew in a few years by its instructors as easily as 
a boy may be taught to be either a shoemaker or a tailor ; 
cases o± original bent excepted. We desire schools in this 
country, but cannot find them; there is no organisation 
for making them to the extent they are required. The 
genius of this nation, great as it really is, impatient of de- 
tails, and looking vigorously to results, will never compete 
in a wild state with the disciplined army of thinkers and of 
