St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-10

a few out of every thousand for the
duties appertaining to professors Of sa-
cred and profane learning, who in turn
passed a few others in each thousand
along the beaten paths of Hellenic and
Roman authors, and presented them
upon the threshold of metaphysics,
which few crossed except for profitless
wrangling. The idea of including
within the scope of education the indus
tries of civilization, remained for later
ages, when the daring of the sailor and
the tread of armies brought the diStrib-
uted races face to face.
DEMOCRACY AND COMMERCE,
and the slowly operating spirit of Chris
tianity, which they have in part har-
moniZed and in part promoted. combine
in our own time to ses tablish new
order. The total effacement of the an
tiouated and exclusive privilege of
higher culture is shown in every pOr-
ton of the exposition. Higher instruc-
tion there is preserving the monumental
works of earlier genius in literature,
but the new epoch, while cherishing
these works, has different as well as a
complementary means of developing in
telligence. 1t is resolved that creation
shall accompany reflection. 1t is not
merely literary; it is industrial. 1t is
not solely for the refinement of the
minority; it is for the good Of
neficent quality is its devotion to
beauty and truth. While aggrandizing
the material and recognizing the fact
that education, like liberty, is uni
yersal right as well as universal pru-
dence, the principle of the new epoch is
that thought shall be turned into skill.
This may not be the noblest idea Of
culture. 1t is doubtless more sublime
to write great poem than to discover
secret in chemistry, to construct per
feet machine or to furnish textile man
ufacturers with more distinguished col
ors and richer designs. The question
of the time is not how to immortalize
rare spirits, but how to render life hap
pier. more rejecting and more virtuOuS
for the great body of people, to whom
the arts and trades are as indispensable
in modern ages as was the meditation of
old to the Cenobite, or
POMP TO THE PRIVILEGED
participators in courtly ssplendor. The
rule of the abstract is past. Socrates
contempt for initiative arts has been
smiled into practical philosophy. The
ErenC0 eQucaGlOndl cXnIDlC presents
this revolution in education with re-
markable comprehensiveness. The first
country to cast off traditional exclusive
literary training, its pre-eminence In
fine industrial art and its monopoly Of
the most profitable industries into which
design enter are explained. In addition
to representation of the entire school
system of Paris, seventy of the eighty
seven departments of the republic have
respective places in the educational
building. The exhibit is under
manifold auspices, manifesting the
ceaseless activity of the peO-
pie. The national system finds
augmentation through benevolent SO
cieties, through municipal and COM
munual organizations, or through spri-
vate enterprise; but whatever the form
of administration the process and prfn-
ciples are identical. Mind training be-
ginning with the primary grades and
passing up through high schools into
colleges and universities Is constantly
accompanied with the training Of the
eye aud the hand throughout all the
sciences and all the arts. The exhibit,