"What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast; no more.
Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused."

-- "Hamlet."

THE word education is here used in its broadest sense, and is meant to
include the physical, mental, intellectual, and industrial. Huxley's
definition is as follows: "Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of nature, under which I include not only things
and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of their
affections and of the will into an earnest and living desire to move
in harmony with these laws. That man, I think, has had a liberal
education who has been so trained in his youth that his body is the
ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the
work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a
clear, cold, logic engine, to be turned to any kind of work, to spin
the gossamers as well as to forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind
is stored with the great and fundamental truths of nature and the laws
of her operations; one whose passions are trained to come to heel by a
vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one who has learned
to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness,
and to respect others as himself."

The Correlation of Mind and Body.-- It is of the utmost importance
that the mutual reaction of mind and body upon each other should be