Brockhurst turned on Swazey with the license that was always permissible. "Well, what do you know? You've been here going on three years. You are supposed to be more than half educated. And you're not a fair example either, because you really are seeking to know something." "Well, go on," said Swazey, thoroughly aroused. "What do you know about the Barbizon school, and the logical reasons for the revolt of the impressionists?" Instantly there was an outcry: "Not fair." "Oh, I say." "That's no test." "Finishing your third year, gentlemen," said Brockhurst triumphantly, "age over twenty; the art of painting is of course known to the aborigines only in its cruder forms. Well, does any one know at least who Manet is, or what he's painted?" There was an accusing silence. "Of course you've an idea of the Barbizon school--one or two of you. You remember something about a Man with a Hoe or the Angelus--that's Sunday supplement education. Now let me try you. Please raise hands, little boys, when you know the answer to these questions, but don't bluff teacher. I'm not contending you should have a detailed knowledge of the world in your eager, studious minds. I am saying that you haven't the slightest general information. I'll make my questions fair. "First, music: I won't ask you the tendencies and theories of the modern schools--you won't know that such a thing as a theory in music exists. You know the opera of Carmen--good old Toreadore song. Do you know the name of the composer? One hand--Bob Story. Do you know the history of its reception? Do you know the sources of it? Do you know what Bach's influence was in the development of music? Did you ever hear of Leoncavallo, Verdi, or that there is such a thing as a Russian composer? Absolute silence. You have a hazy knowledge of Wagner, and you know that Chopin wrote a funeral march. That is your foothold in music; there you balance, surrounded by howling waters of ignorance. "Take up architecture. Do you know who built the Vatican? Do you know the great buildings of the world--or a single thing about Greek, Roman and Renaissance architecture? Do you know what the modern French movement is based upon? Nothing. "Take up religion. Do you know anything about Confucius, Shintoism, or Swedenborg, beyond the names? Of course you would not know that under Louis XVI a determined movement was made to reunite the Catholic and Protestant branches, which almost succeeded. That's unfair, because of course it is the forerunner of the great religious movement to-day. Do you know the history of the external symbols of the Christian religion, and what is historically new? Darkness denser and denser.