New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-01

him England has before her ruin inevitable and
terrible, such nation has yet suffered and the
complaCency of the peers and Of certain ayOwed
teachers is to him sheer blasphemy, The agrcnl-
tural England and the manufacturing England alike
corrupt to the core and To correspondents laying
before him terrible scenes Of depTayity and asking
what can be done for the young men and women
growing in the midst Of them, he can only answer,
Nothing can be done but what am trying to form
this st. Georges Company 10 do"
1t is quite impossible to read these souOwful let
ters without being moved by the honesty and
earnestness of the writer. Let us try to persuade
ourselves also that among the homes of Englishmen
other RATS, though clumser, are making ready.
Apart from the representations, the several letters
contain passages of exceeding suggestiyeness Some
one complained that he made Fors so desultory and
did not come more decidedly to his subject where
upon he replied
If told them or tried to help them definitely to con
ceve the ultimate things l aim AZ, they would at once
throw the bark down as hopees.y uoman 3nI II ,t t
do those instantly possible things because ngoss!eh
continues " l take WordsEorih's singc line.
We live by admiration, hope, and love,
for my literal guide in all education NY anai object
teach n bst to admire what to hone for and what TO
love but how far do suppose the steps necessary 20
such an ultimate aim ara Immediately consistent with
what Messrs. Huxley 4 CO. call Secular Education, or
with what either tie Bishop of Oxford on Mr. Sturgeon
would cali Religious Education T. What to admire or
wonder at Do you exp, ct child to wonder a-hcing
taCGb, that two and two make ourdhough if only its
masters had the sense TO teach that honestly would ne
something at the number of copies OF nasty novels
ana false news steam ENGINE can print for Us redng
il shall b. the richest shopm@n in the stRect and he
buried With BLACK feathers enough over Is collin what
10 lOve-yes my ecclesiastical friends and who is lis
neighbor, think yOui VII you meet these Three Dc.
mands ut mine with your three RS, your ctiechsn
Here attend his own answer, in which lac sums up
the principles of education;
Z" And how would meet them mysclfl simply hy
never far could help IT, ct NJ child read what
is worth reading, what r. not worth seeing
ana by making IL live life which, whether II VIII or 10
shall enforce honorable hope of continuing long IN the
land, whether of men or God"
Ii will be seen that Mr. Rusbin lays down simple
principles that cut across great many of orr sys-
TENS and good deal of our boa.tcd enlightenment.
for one, glad to be pricked in my conscience by
this prophet and APOSTLE His letter., having at first
to the casual rcadera willfu Maynard sound, to
the thoughtful and attentive one, profoundly direct
and penetrating. They are radical in the extreme,
but his rldicalisn is Of constructive sort, consist
ing in the planting of roots rather than the laying
of his AK ut the root of hoary trees There is more
over in the letters a delight for every one who
ioices in vigorous and sweet prose- the passages Of
his own life are told with charming fraukucss aud
with a revelation of spirit which goes far
toward explaining the whole attitude Of tie
man, while his criticism upon conventional religious
education ia refreshing 10 all who know how as
suTedy religion itself is served aud as beauty dis
covered by the utter demolition of on the leau-to's
Of commerce and selfishuess that cluster about its
walls. He is drawn into correspondence Nth thi, or
that man or woman hut las letters refining upon
his general doctrines, rarely stray from the main
purpose III hand. Whatever may be the actual issue
If the st. Georges Company, the writing contained
Ifyig1py hardly fail IN Irrt Lac red