"_To do pre-eminently well a part of the highest work of all the world! If by being a nation we can advance mankind; if by being a nation we can make a better community for ourselves; our aims are founded on the highest raison d'etre,--the ethical spirit._ We must deliberately mark out our work on this principle; and if we do not work upon it we had better not exist." Then Haviland related to Chrysler freely and fully the comprehensive plan which he had worked out for the building of the nation. "First of all," he said, "as to ourselves, there are certain things we must clearly take to mind before we begin:" "That we cannot do good work without making ourselves a good people;" "That we cannot do the best work without being also a strong and intellectual people;" "And that we cannot attain to anything of value at haphazard; but must deliberately choose and train for it." "Labors worthy of Hercules!" ejaculated the old gentleman. "Worthy of God," the young one replied. The difference of age between himself and the Ontarian seemed to disappear, and he proceeded confidently: "The foundation must be the Ideal Physical Man. We must never stop short of working until,--now, do not doubt me, sir,--every Canadian is the strongest and most beautiful man that can be thought. No matter how utterly chimerical this seems to the parlor skeptic who insists on our seeing only the common-place, it cannot be so to the true thinker who knows the promises of science and reflects that a nation can turn its face to endeavours which are impossible for a person. Physical culture must be placed on a more reasonable basis, and made a requisite of all education. We need a Physical Inspector in every School. We need to regularly encourage the sports of the country. We require a military term of training, compulsory on all young men, for its effect in straightening the person and strengthening the will. We must have a nation of stern, strong men--a careless people can never rise; no deep impression, no fixed resolve, will ever originate from easy-going natures." "Next, the most crying requirement is True Education. The source of all our political errors and sufferings is an ignorant electorate, who do not know how to measure either the men or the doctrines that come before them. There is necessity in the doctrine of the State's right over secular education. Democracy, gives you and me an inalienable interest, social and political, in the education of each voter, because its very principle is the right to choose our rulers. As to religious education, that of course is sacred, where it does not encroach on the State's right, and the arrangement I favor is that secular studies be enforced during certain hours, and the use of the school buildings granted to religious instructors at others." "I notice you say true education."