schools (and I have
been dealing exclusively with public-school classes) cannot make much
headway until they have clay to mould instead of granite to chisel. It
is not their fault if there is no way to teach the majority, and if the
few are thrown back on their own inadequate resources. The remedy lies
in some measure to ensure the right primary education. Seventy-five
per cent. of the public school boys have not had brilliant, discerning
governesses--or even mothers. There are not enough of either to go
round. So that the seventy-five per cent., possibly more, don't know
how to learn, and the mere twenty-five per cent. do. It is hard to
tackle effectively so intangible a problem as the correct primary
method of teaching, and the statesman, through whose instrumentality
this percentage is reversed, may give up politics for gold not had
brilliant, discerning governesses with a clear conscience. The first
step, therefore, is to reform the education of women. "Take care of
the women, the men will take care of themselves."

Nevertheless, be the solution what it may, the importance of the
subject cannot be over-estimated. One more illustration. The better
educated a man is, the more capable he is of soaring above the spirit
of national citizenship....

And the next stage is the spirit of world citizenship ... which, in the
course of many, many years, together, possibly, with the development of
Esperanto, means the brotherhood of men....

Then perpetual peace....

Then advancement to a primitive condition....

Then the much-dreamed-of well-ordered anarchy....

To continue till a second Milton is called upon to write as misty
history a second "Paradise Lost." ...

B.W.L.

II

"And He saw that it was good...."

Throughout the Universe which He had created He set a Great Road, and
on it was Man, at first invisible, but soon an infinite multitude. And
then unto Man, as to nothing else in His Universe, He gave the power to
move, and to walk on the Road, which He made to pass through all the
Great and Beautiful Worlds, coming at last to where He is, where all is
happy because all is good, and where nothing ends because there is the
End. And as He looked and beheld Man scattered out upon the great Road
as it wound about through the Universe, He thought to try His people,
and show by a certain proof whether they were possessed of the goodness
through which alone they could comprehend all things, and