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We have so often warned the public against
fancies and delusion on the subject of national edu-
cation that we are glad to see oar note taken up
by so liberal a nobleman as Lord Stanley. There
never was, in fact, a greater dream than that theory
of the universal spread of knowledge which sprang
up some 30 years, ago, and had its reign. It was
a generous, a lofty, a magnificent vision, but still
it was a vision, and nothing else,—something seen

in the clouds; it was as much a fiction
as Jack's world at the top of the bean-
stalk, or Aladdin's palace, or the fortunate Isles, or
Araby the Blest. It was very proper and suitable
for that day ; one may say that it was a lucky hal-
lucination, a profitable hallucination; it was a lift
at starting, it was of great use in inaugurating
and setting going the work of national education,
which was then quite new. It has been said that no
undertaking would ever be begun in this world if
people had to start it in cool blood ; there must be
some enthusiasm to start it, some imaginative im-
pulse, some fond illusion. If we only saw, to begin
with, the actual results which we should produce
at last, our optimism would be scandalised, and we
should be apt to think it not worth our while giving
ourselves so much trouble for so mediocre, however
practically useful, an issue. The theory of the uni-
versal spread of knowledge, then, was a convenient
delusion at starting; but, now that we have been
working our undertaking some thirty years, we
find the difference between theory and facts, We
find all sorts of practical obstacles in the way, hin-
drances that we did not count on, urgent needs
and motives, belonging to the drag of physical life
and the necessity of supporting it: Ail this is
against us. We must do as well as we can under
the circumstances, and we may do a great deal, but
we find out that it is a plain case of compromise ;
parents want the wages of their boys; boys them-
selves want to begin work and feel themselves some-
thing of men. Our sky, then, is now sobered in its
tints, and we sport the maxims of maturity and ex-
perience instead of the magnificent but youthful
sentiment of the early stage of the movement of
education. "On whatever system or principle,"
says Lord Stanley, "you establish primary schools,
there is one conclusion we must prepare for—we
must expect that a very large proportion of those
that attend them, leaving them at the age at which
they do, will acquire nothing beyond the bare rudi-
ments of knowledge—the power to read, write, and
cipher." This is looking facts in the face. We are
far from wishing to make people despond on this
subject, and we deprecate any reactionary inference,
but we have all along asserted that people must
see these facts at last, and therefore we are
glad to find now that they do see them, and that
Lord Stanley, as the mouthpiece and representa-
tive of men of common sense, formally acknow-
ledges them.
The distinction again to which, under these cir-
cumstances, he calls attention—that our primary
schools do not educate boys so much as furnish them
with the means of educating themselves afterwards,
when they have left r.chool, is, we think, a most
valuable one, and we have frequently had occasion
ourselves to impress it on the public mind. It is
an important distinction, not only in itself, but be-
cause it tends to put people on the right tack in the
search for higher education when they want it ; it
tells them where this is to be found, and it saves a
great deal of unnecessary and superfluous anxiety
with respect to the preliminary processes of educa-
tion, a great deal of useless controversy, and a great
deal of irrelevant speculation and scheming. " This
fect being once admitted," says Lord Stanley, " I
think this consequence follows—that the import-
ance which has often been attached to the particu-
lar system on which schools are conducted is very
greatly diminished. Provided you can get the
children to attend them, that the masters are com-
petent, and the discipline good, I, for my own part,
care little how these schools are established,
believing that they do not give education, but only
the means of acquiring it hereafter, and the direc-
tion which the studies of the man will take is very
little determined by the accident of the school he
has attended."

In another direction, again, and on another sub-
ject, Lord Stanley adopts a more modified view of
the effect of education than has been in fashion
lately. He speaks to a fact to which he has a right
to speak, as a person officially connected with the
criminal administration of the country, as Chair-
man of the Kirkdale Quarter Sessions, in which
capacity he has had great opportunities for obser-
vation and reflection. Going upon his own expe-
rience, then, and upon cases that have come before
his eyes, Lord Stanley evidently hesitates to say
that the mere knowledge which is given by going
to school has much effect in the prevention of
crime. What has an effect in preventing crime,
he say's, is that sort of intelligence and common
sense which makes a man able "to calculate the
consequences of what he does." He finds an ex-
traordinary want of this natural foresight and prac-
tical comprehension in the criminal class; " utter
stupidity" he calls it, but he does not identify it
with mere school ignorance, for" he does not mean
to say that the mere power of reading and writing
will make the difference" between the calculating
habit of mind and the uncalculating one. This
"stupidity" is rather a want of practical thought
and seriousness, a levity, en obtuseness to the future,
an absorption in the present,—a want, in short, of
the proper rational character. Reason is essentially
prophetic ; it looks beforehand, it forecasts, it fears,
it surmises, it suspects, it shrinks from the unknown
future except it feels a guidance and a clue. The
sottish stupidity of the criminal class is exactly the
opposite of this character of reason; it is a base
insensibility to everything but the present, a want
of fear of consequences simply because consequences
are not taken into the mental range ; -it is an
animal levity and desperation, totally contrary to
the true intelligent nature of man, degrading him
into a brute, handing over to the absolute dominion
of a lower nature within him, consisting of blind
instincts, impulses, and appetencies, the medium
through which all-powerful fate magnetizes the
wretch and hurls him to destruction. In the re-
marks we have had occasion to make from time to
time on the character of the criminal class we have
more than once drawn attention to this remarkable
predominance of blind instinct in them, which,
though they are doubtless responsible for the
strength which they have allowed it to attain, has
the appearance of being at the time irresistible ;
so that they seem to perpetrate savage acts literally
like brutes that have not the power of questioning
animpulse, but obey it as a law. "In this way,"
says Lord Stanley, "the intellectual and moral de-
ficiency appear to go together, and surely from that it
is ayeasonable inference that the more you can do
to increase men's intelligence, the more you will
lessen the amount at least of the grosser forms of
crime." But this intellectual deficiency does not
appear, as he says, to be a literary deficiency, but
amore fundamental one, residing in the depths of
his nature. Men of really good education and large
knowledge may have this irrational, uncalculating
blind nature in full force underneath all their gifts ;
men of no education or knowledge may have the
rational presc:ent nature in the greatest strength
underneath all their rudeness and ignorance. But,
so far as education has an influence on this alter-
native of character, its influence is doubtless on the
right side, and the new interests and ideas which
it supplies tend to elevate the reason and strengthen
it in the conflict with animal nature.— Times.

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