capacity depend, is, therefore, a mat-
ter of supreme importance. To this
necessity educators will some day open
their eyes, and educational systems
will some day conform; meantime, it
must be done mainly by individual
work. Knowledge, discipline, and
technical training of the best sort are
accessible on every hand; but the de-
velopment of the faculty which unites
all these in the highest form of activ-
ity must be secured mainly by per-
sonal effort. The richest and most
accessible material for this highest
education is furnished by art; and the
form of art within reach of every civ-
ilised man, at all times, in all places,
is the book. To these masterpieces,
which have been called the books of
life, all men may turn with the assur-
ance that as the supreme achievements
of the imagination they have the

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