Education is not only the foundation for happiness; it should and it can be made a pleasure in itself. This will sound strange to those who are principally familiar with such institutions of education as those of the Mr. Squeers or Dr. Blimber type. But the schoolmaster has himself been to school, and after flogging children for several thousand years, and thereby developing a healthy hatred of books which it is a wonder did not hurl the race back into barbarism, he has learned from Froebel and Pestalozzi and others that it is actually possible for a sane mind to study with pleasure if the chance is offered. Indeed, a learned writer who has many admirers in this country, Mr. Herbert Spencer, is able to say,――“The usual test of political legislation――its tendency to promote happiness――is beginning to be the test of legislation for the school and the nursery;” and elsewhere,――“As a final test by which to judge any plan of culture should come the question,――Does it create a pleasurable sensation in the pupil?” This is good counsel; but, like many good things, it is also old. Two thousand years ago or so Plato wrote,――“In education, direct boys to what amuses their minds.” Security, liberty, and the means of knowledge,――these, therefore, are the conditions of happiness which every government should, and all in some measure do, offer the individual. For them, he is entirely dependent on others. In whatever delusion to the contrary his ignorance or his arrogance may plunge him, he can obtain these inestimable benefits in no other way than through the social organization, and he cannot therefore escape his liability for them. If he denies it or refuses it, the consequences will be as inevitable as they will be disastrous. He who wisely consults the conditions which determine his own happiness will not seek in isolation or self-sufficiency these elements, which can alone be obtained through the co-operation of his fellow-man. * * * * * Social progress is advanced far more by strengthening the weak than by chastising the wicked. * * * * * The sense of safety implies not merely absence of fear, but also freedom of action. * * * * * Justice should be the motto of the State; prudence that of the individual. * * * * * Self-recognition is a part of happiness; but the recognition by others of what we pride ourselves upon, is another and a large part of it. * * * * * Man is a social being; but the true aim of his social activity is to learn how to be solitary. * * * * * He who thinks it necessary to seek solitude for self-improvement often finds there is still one too many persons present. * * * * * The purpose of law is liberty; of obedience, independence; of submission, emancipation. * * * * *