auty, benevolence,
progress, these are the words we use. But the principle we evoke is a
principle of barren, sanctified compulsion of all life. We want to put
all life under compulsion. "How to outwit the nerves," for
example.--And therefore, to save the children as far as possible,
elementary education should be stopped at once.

No child should be sent to any sort of public institution before the
age of ten years. If I could but advise, I would advise that this
notice should be sent through the length and breadth of the land.

"Parents, the State can no longer be responsible for the
mind and character of your children. From the first day of
the coming year, all schools will be closed for an
indefinite period. Fathers, see that your boys are trained
to be men. Mothers, see that your daughters are trained to
be women.

"All schools will shortly be converted either into public
workshops or into gymnasia. No child will be admitted into
the workshops under ten years of age. Active training in
primitive modes of fighting and gymnastics will be
compulsory for all boys over ten years of age.

"All girls over ten years of age must attend at one domestic
workshop. All girls over ten years of age may, in addition,
attend at one workshop of skilled labor, or of technical
industry, or of art. Admission for three months' probation.

"All boys over ten years of age must attend at one workshop
of domestic crafts, and at one workshop of skilled labor, or
of technical industry, or of art. A boy may choose, with his
parents' consent, his school of labor, or technical industry
or art, but the directors reserve the right to transfer him
to a more suitable department, if necessary, after a three
months' probation.

"It is the intention of this State to form a body of active,
energetic citizens. The danger of a helpless, presumptuous,
news-paper-reading population is universally recognized.

"All elementary education is left in the hands of the
parents, save such as is necessary to the different branches
of industry.

"Schools of mental culture are free to all individuals over
fourteen years of age.

"Universities are free to all who obtain the first culture
degree."

The fact is, our process of universal education is to-day so uncouth,
so psychologically barbaric, th