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I have endeavoured to lay before you facts and ideas which 
bear on the important question as to whether we are educating the 
present generation properly. The word educate means, to bring up 
as a child ; instruction ; the art of developing and cultivating the 
physical, intellectual, and moral faculties; formation of manners, 
and improvement of the mind. 
Each of the different educational systems seem able to supply 
that which is deficient in the other ; and could a medium kind of 
education be adopted for all classes, which would give teachers 
more time to devote to the brighter and more intellectual capacities 
of their pupils, we should better fit them for their future work. 
The present style of education has to a certain extent diminished 
the amount of crime that comes under the jurisdiction of the 
courts. Is the improvement apparent or real 1 Does not education 
merely give a wider scope for the criminal, and change the char- 
acter of the crime, but not its enormity 1 and does it not, whilst 
destroying the barriers between class and class, also destroy those 
feelings of respect and obedience which formerly distinguished our 
boys and girls? Employers already experience a difficulty in 
obtaining from their workmen and apprentices the proper amount 
of work and interest their position demands. Mistresses and their 
servants are not on such good terms as they were twenty years ago. 
Now are these defects the result of over-instruction or of over- 
pressure, which leaves so little time to inculcate those principles of 
religion and morality which all children ought to learn and put into 
practice ? 
SHAKSPERE'S "TEMPEST." 
A PAPER BY THE REV. W. C. DARBY. 
(Read February 28th, 1884.) 
THE GROWTH OF OUR RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
A PAPER BY MR. P. STEWART MACLIVER, M.P. 
(Read March 6th, 1884.) 
