Show T THE HE application of systematic education education education tion to the improvement of the human race as a whole and for the better better better bet bet- ter preservation of society is a comparatively comparatively comparatively modern idea Not until quite recently was it considered necessary or advisable to make education universal True in all times even the lowest classes were carefully trained to yield obedience to II their superiors and the fiction was carefully kept up that the safety of society depended on the yielding of this obedience But modern education is broad and democratic and no classes are excluded from a share in its benefits With the broadening of the plan of education education education edu edu- cation and its more universal application tion has come the idea of its application to the increasing of the sum of human happiness Formerly votaries of learning learning learn learn- ing iI-g perused knowledge II for for its own sake or for the happiness they individually individually individually indi indi- gained in its pursuit holding always the belief that the world need not necessarily partake of that happiness But modern thought in all its utilitarianism utilitarian utilitarian- ism is altruistic The world of thought is a grand socialistic democracy in which all give and all receive It harbors harbors harbors har har- bors no aristocracy and no plebeians and such growing liberality in the world of thought as now prevails cannot but produce more unselfish more natural and more just relations between man and man in all the walks of life ife |