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And,—would to God that all pondered this well-—-if selfishness be¬ 
gins with the governing classes, ivoe to the country that is “governed.” The 
evil spreads downward, and includes all classes, even the poorest. The 
race of life becomes one for mere pelf and self. Principle is abandoned, 
Honesty is a forgotten virtue, Faith dies out , and society becomes a scram¬ 
ble for place and money. 
Yet, there are men still who refuse to be bought; who do not work 
for gold; who, on the contrary, work for God and the real good of all their 
fellow-men. 
Thou must be brave thyself, 
If thou the truth wouldst teach; 
Live truly, and thy life shall be 
A great and noble creed. 
— Anon. 
Education. 
¥ 11 AT sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. 
It is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is 
best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and 
by the same means. The training which makes men happiest in them¬ 
selves also makes them most serviceable to others. 
The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the 
best which teaches everything else and not that. 
Ho inheritance can supply the want of a virtuous, truly Christian, 
education. Wherefore you who may be especially charged with the wel¬ 
fare of others , never forget that education commences at the mother s knee, 
and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards 
the formation of character. 
