The record-union., 1896-04-13

form. The same faces appear again
and again at the bar; the same men
hear again and again the verdict of
guilty and the sentence of the court,
and the same men return again and
again to the prison CELL
"Murderers, those belonging to the
dangerous classes, those who are SO
formed by nature that they rush to the
crimes of desperation, should be inn
prisoned for life, or they should be put
upon some island, some place where
they can be guarded, where it may be
that by proper effort they could support
themselves; the men on one island, the
women on another. And to these
islands should be sent professional
criminals, those who have deliberately
adopted life of crime for the purpose
Of supporting themselves, the women
upon one island, the men upon another.
Such people should not populate the
earth"
Then he spoke Of reforms in the edu-
cation Of children, as follows:
Every child should be taught to be
self-supporting, and every one should
be taught to avoid being a burden on
others as 1t would shun death.
Every child should be taught that
the useful are the honorable and that
they who live on the labor of others are
the enemies Of society. Every child
should be taught that useful work is
worship and that intelligent labor is the
highest form of prayer.
Children should be taught to think,
to investigate, to rely upon the light of
reason, Of observation and experience;
should be taught to use all their senses,
and they should be taught only that
which in some sense is really useful.
They should be taught the use of tools,
to use their hands, to embody their
thoughts in the construction Of things.
Their lives should not be wasted in the
acquisition Of the useless or of the al
most useless. Years should not be de-
voted to the acquisition of dead Ian
guages or to the study of history. which,
for the most part, is a detailed account
Of things that never occurred. It is
useless to fill the mind with dates Of
great battles, with the births and
deaths of kings. They should be taught
the philosophy of history, the growth
OF nations, the PHILOSOPHERS, theories
and, above all, of the sciences.
so they should be taught the import
ance not only of financial, but of mental
honesty; to be absolutely sincere; to
utter their real thoughts, and to give
their actual opinions, and, If parents
want honest children they should be
honest themselves. 1t may be that
hypocrites transmit that failing to their
offspring. Men and women who pre-
tend to agree with the majority, who
think one way and talk another, can
hardly expect their children to be alb
solutely sincere.
Nothing should be taught in any
school that the teacher does not know
Beliefs. superstitions, theories, should
not be treated like demonstrated facts
The child should be taught to investi-
gate, not to believe. Too much doubt
is better than too much credulity So
children should be taught that it is their
duty to think for themselves to under
stand and, If possible. to know.
Real education is the hope of the fu-
ture. The development of the brain, the
civilization of the heart, will drive want
and crime from the world. The school
house Is the real cathedral and science
the only possible savior of the human
race. Education, real education, is the
friend of honesty, Of morality, OF tenn
perance.
I'VE cannot rely upon legislative en-
actments to make people wise and good !;
neither can We expect to make human
beings manly and womanly by keeping
them out of temptation. Temptations
are as thick as the leaves of the forest,
and no one can be out of the reach of
temptation unless he Is dead The great
thing is to make people intelligent
enough and strong enough not to keep
away from temptation, but to resist it.
All the forces of civilization are In favor
of morality and temperance. Little can
be accomplished by law, because law,
Tor the most part, about such things is
a destruction of personal liberty Lib
erty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of
temperance, for the sake of morality, or
for the sake of anything. It Is Of more
value than anything else. Yet some
people would destroy the sun to prevent
the growth Of weeds. Liberty sustains
the same relation to all the virtues that
the sun does to life. The world had bet
ter go back to barbarism, to the dens.
the caves and lairs Of savagery; better
lose all art, all inventions. than to lose
liberty. Liberty Is the breath Of prog
ress; it Is the seed and SOIL the heat and
rain OF love and JOY
so all should be taught that the
highest ambition is to be happy and to
add to the well being of others; that
place and power are not necessary to
success; that the desire to acquire great
wealth is a kind of insanity. They
should be taught that 1t is a waste of
energy. a waste of thought, a waste of
life, to acquire what you do not need,
and what You really do not use for the
benefit Of yourself or others.
Neither mendicants nor millionaires
ere the happiest of mankind. The man
. al the bottom of the ladder hopes to
rise; the man at the top fears to fail.
The one asks; the other refuses, and by
frequent refusal the heart becomes hard
enough and the hand greedy enough to
clutch and hold.
Few men have intelligence enough,
real greatness enough, to own a great
fortune. As a rule, the fortune owns
them. Their fortune Is their master, for
whom they work and toll like slaves.
The man who has a good business and
who can make reasonable living and
lay aside something for the future. who
can educate his children and can leave
enough TO keep the wolf of want from
the door Of those he loves. ought to be
the happiest of men.
THE time will come when the truly
intelligent man cannot be happy, can
not be satisfied, when millions of his
fellow-men are hungry and naked; the
time win come when In every heart will
be the perfume of PHYS sacred flower:
the time will come when the world will
be anxious to ascertain the tr1lth IN