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the ruling powers, if we must submit to the reign of law, the 
influence of which the mind of the Duke of Argyle exhibits, if 
disorganization, or defective organization, invariably succumbs 
before superior organization, the education of a nation destined 
to contend in an inevitable struggle for life must be founded on a 
principle of complete organization. The education of the people, 
that subject to which the attention of this community is now so 
worthily, yet so tardily turned, must be conducted on a principle 
that would be an example of the characteristic of the intellectual 
progress of the age. 
It is impossible to estimate the loss, the reckless waste incurred, 
if it be true that intellectual progress can be made good only by 
method, order, and system, and if the mode of education of the 
people is conspicuous for the absence of method, order, and system. 
I have alluded to the probable disappearance of the genius and 
the hero, not fearing any falling off in the esteem due to merit, 
but looking forward to such an accession of merit, that those high 
personages will be lost in the crowd. 
" Not that I love Caesar less, 
But that I love Rome more." 
That such an end may be accomplished, that the work which 
lies before us may be well performed, that the march of intellect 
may proceed and carry in its train every good thing that may be 
comprised in the word civilization, the education of every indi- 
vidual mind must be conducted with method and order, from the 
first dawn of intelligent life onwards, in accordance with an organ- 
ized system ; a system which would exhibit gradually to every 
individual mind the whole range of mental vision, and endow it 
with the faculty of recognizing for itself, as it advances, that por- 
tion of the burden of labour which it may be best adapted to 
bear, that division or sub-division of the work which it is most 
fitted to perform. The mind of every unit, every detail in the 
mass which constitutes the national intellect as a whole, must be 
carefully investigated, placed according to its rank, and led outj 
the original strict meaning of the Latin words from which the 
word education is derived, into the path which it is constructed to 
follow. 
Can there be a question that the mind, carefully and methodi- 
cally trained from the earliest period, will succeed in competition 
