Year: 1862

with case of sharp knives in one hand
hlagazlne OF drugs In the other, I heaye
sign Tor the human race. Especially is
ali this lamentable when We remember that
1t involves the spelling of thousands of
good farmers and mechanics, to make poor
professional men, while those who would
make good professional men are obliged TO
attend tc the simple duties of life, and sub.
nit to preaching that neither feeds nor slim.
ulates them, and medicine that kills or fails
10 cure them


here must be something radically
wrong III our educational system when
youth are generally untitled for the station
which they are 10 occupy. or are forced in
to professions for which they have no nat
ural fitness The truth is that the stuff
talked to boys and girls alike, about aiming
high, and the assurances given them, indis.
crlminately, that they can be anything that
they choose to become, are essential mi
sances, Our children will go to the pub
lie schools. They are all taught these
things. They all go into the world with
high notions, and find it impossible to con.
tent themselves with their lot They had
hoped to realize in life that which had been
promised them in schools, but all their
dreams have faded, and left them dlssn.
pointed and unhappy They envy those
whom they have been taught to consider
above them, and learn to count their own
lives failure. Girls starve in a mean
poverty, or do worse, because they are too
proud to work in chamber, or go into
shop.


American servants are absolute, all COM
mon emplOyments are at q discount. the
professions are crowded to overHowing, the
country throngs with demagogues, and
general dI content with an humble lot pre-
walls, simply because the youti. of Ameri-
Ca have got the idea distilled into them
that to he III private life, in whatever con
dltlon' Is to be, IN some sense, nobody
1t Is possible the schools are not exclusive
ly 10 blame tor this state of things, and
that our political harangues, and even our
political institutions, have something to do
with it.


What we grealy need in this country
Is the lnculcation Of soberer views of life
Boys and girls are bred to discomfort Ev
cry body is after high place, and nearly
everybody fails to get one and, failing,
loses heart, tempe and content The mul
tltude dress beyond their means, and live
beyond their necessities, to keep up show
Of being what they are not Farmers
daughters do not love to become farmers
wives, and even their fathers and mothers
stimulate their ambition to exchange their
station for one which stands higher in the
worlds estimation Humble employments
are held in conteu. pit, and humble powers
are everywhere making high employments
cUntemptible. Our children need to br
educated to fill in christian humility, the
subordinate Offices Of life which they must
fill, and taught to respect humble callings,
aud to beautiiy and gloriiy them by lives
OF contented and glad industry When
public schools accomplish au end so desir
able as this, they will fuli their mission
and they will not before. seriously doubt
whether one school in hundred, public or
private, comprehends its duty in this par
ticular. They tail to inculcate the idea
that the majority of the Offices of life are
humble, that the powers of the majority of
the youth which they contain have relation
to those Offices, that no man is respectable
when he is out of his place, and that half
of the unhappiness of the world grows out
OF the fact, that, from distorted views of
life, men are in places where they do not
belong. Let us have this thing altogether
reformed