, 1866-04-03
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Pythagoras held thats Deity is mum
Der. Whatever may have been the meaning
or The merits Of his doctrine, VIC must at least
confess that we orc ruled by numbers. A
mans individual "worth ~ is counted by the
number OF dollars he can command, and his
/ political position by the number Of votes he
can get. AL questions, great or small, are
: decided by numerical majorities; and when
passion appealed from the ballot to the sword,
the question remained undecided only until
there was found q moderator able to pat the
vote. General Grant discovered that the
xl,nla issua snr.,aa ursa the rlmple ar1thmet-
icnl question, whether moro men we're willing
10 die to save tue country than to destroy It,
and so he proceeded, with grim mathcnatf.
cal rigidness, TO cancel equivalent terms, call.
Ing bis witnesses to the ordeal-witncss in
Greek Is na7yr-until 1t was clear to the
world, where was the weight Of evidence
the major vote Of manhood.
So also the growth and greatness of nations
are written In statistics; and the moral ele-
'mcuts, which make their greatness or their
'sum. arc also rcducible to figures. The world
has learned the science Of statistics SO slowly
that there has hithcsto been hardly any other
way Of detcrmiLing the relative powers Of
moral forces, except the Issue Of battIc. To
that iseue has just teeu brought tue question,
between two forms oi cIyillzauon-thc aristo-
cratic end thc detaocra:ic-wlIch have held
sway IN dt1crtut lsor,iouh Of cur country since
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