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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 proportion 
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 that 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 life-w^rk ? How much time shall the farmer 
devote to language ? How much* time shall the lawyer 
devote to agricultural science ? How much time can the 
