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Huxley On Education

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
February
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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Prof. Huxley, in his lector Ast month on edoeam and'governnient, said : He wished th'at cvery wonian-child born into the world were trained to be a lady, and evefy man-child trained to bc a gentleman. Brít'H-:rAiá tïot use these much itDused -words by way of distinguishing peoplo wHo wore fine clothes and lived in fine houses and tvlkd aristocratie slang, fron: those who went' abroad in fustian and livi-d in black slums and talked gntter slang. Sonie inborn plebian blindness, perhaps, prerented him from understaodiug what advantagc the former had orer the latter. Thoughtfulness for other, generosity, modesty and self-respect were the quaïities tht niade the real gentleman or lay, a ditiagnished by the ▼eneersd artiele tnat trent by the name. He by no mans wished to expresa any sentimental preference of Lazarus over Dives, but on the face of the matter one did not see why the practice oL those virtuen shouM he more diffimilt in one state of life thn in antoïtief, : oud any one who had a wíáe experience among all sorts and conííitSong of tten would, he thought, ngree wit& Him ttía-t theyere as comraon in the lower raaks of au in thehigher.

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Michigan Argus