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Show DRUNKENNESS AND EDUCATION. The amended school bill brought in by the Commons Com-mons and rejected by the Lords recalls an essay on "Drink: The Vice and the Disease," published in the London Quarterly Review. October, 1ST5. The writer, an eminent doctor who had for years made l a study of the subject and consulted other' mem- : ber3 of the profession on the subject, said: "Edu- i cation, stripped of all moral training, is not sufficient suf-ficient to make men perfect or good. It is true that the cure for this hydra-headed evil" (drunkenness) (drunk-enness) must proceed ultimately from the reformation refor-mation of the poor themselves; but meanwhile it is as unfair, a useless to expect that reformation under circumstances the most unfavorable to it. A man may have power to stand firm, but not to stand firm against force that is perpetually pulling him down. It is said in conventional terms, that the spread of education, viz., the development, of i sound principle? in ft well-regulated home, under the example of virtuous parents, would effect all we could wish; but, while the evil is increasing, these virtuous parents and well-regulated homes 1 are further and further to find. It is not the spread of mere schooling, at best but a scanty instruction, in-struction, which can avail, and which is all that is really meant by the cant word "education." There is plenty of testimony from the source we have been quoting of the delusion of such plans or hopes. "Some of the best men are the most intemperate." in-temperate." "Moral education, mental alone will not do; the cleverest-artisan is often the greatest drunkard." "Our national schooIs, night schools. Sunday schools, have all failed hitherto." "Mere teaching is an empirical remedy for drunkards." |