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There is no traceable difference between a primitive barbarian and one who is civilized, save that the one has continued in undeveloped mental conditions, whereas the other, through the lapse of centuries, has risen higher and higher in the conscious attainment of his intellectual powers. Education, to be effective, must be symmetrical. I regard no education as genuine that is merely partial, that appertains alone to one department of an individual, or interests alone a single faculty of his being. Complete education must be round, full, proportionate; it must divide itself equably among all the faculties, all the various departments and ele ments of a human being. Otherwise it makes him intellectually, or morally, or physically, lop-sided. His passions, thoughts, purposes, aims, judgments, would, therefore, be confused, unbalanced and contradictory. His education, |