So with our youths. We once taught them to make Latin verses, and called them educated; now we teach them to leap and to row, to hit a ball with a bat, and call them educated. Can they plough, can they sow, can they plant at the right time, or build with a steady hand? Is it the effort of their lives to be chaste, knightly, faithful, holy in thought, lovely in word and deed? Indeed it is, with some, nay, with many, and the strength of England is in them, and the hope; but we have to turn their courage from the toil of war to the toil of mercy; and their intellect from dispute of words to discernment of things; and their knighthood from the errantry of adventure to the state and fidelity of a kingly power. And then, indeed, shall abide, for them and for us, an incorruptible felicity, and an infallible religion; shall abide for us Faith, no more to be assailed by temptation, no more to be defended by wrath and by fear;—shall abide with us Hope, no more to be quenched by the years that overwhelm, or made ashamed by the shadows that betray:—shall abide for us, and with us, the greatest of these; the abiding will, the abiding name of our Father. For the greatest of these is Charity. Footnotes. {1} The paragraph that begins “I think I can best tell you their answer . . .” {2} The paragraph that begins “Does a bird . . .” {3} The paragraphs beginning: 79—“I believe, then, with this exception . . .” 75—“Yet, observe, with exquisite accuracy . . .” 19—“Now, in order to deal with words rightly, . . .” 79—“Then, in art, keep the finest models . . .” {4} _φίλη_. {5} Note this sentence carefully, and compare the ‘Queen of the Air,’ paragraph “Nothing that I ever said is more . . .” {6} 2 Peter iii. 5–7. {7} Compare the 13th Letter in ‘Time and Tide.’ {8} Modern “Education” for the most part signifies giving people the faculty of thinking wrong on every conceivable subject of importance to them. {9} Inf. xxiii. 125, 126; xix. 49. 50. {10} Compare with paragraph “This, then, is what you have to do . . .” {11} See note at end of lecture. I have put it in large type, because the course of matters since it was written has made it perhaps better worth attention. {12} Respecting the increase of rent by the deaths of the poor, for evidence of which see the preface to the Medical Officer’s report to the Privy Council, just published, there are suggestions in its preface which will make some stir among us, I fancy, respecting which let me note these points following:— There are two theories on the subject of land now abroad, and in contention; both false.