Note 10 — Chapter XIII · THE MORAL EFFECT OF MANUAL TRAINING.

“‘God has granted,’ says the Koran, ‘to every people a prophet in its own tongue.’ Paris, and London, and New York, the spirit of commerce, of money, and material power, were also to have their prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent. Every one of the million readers of anecdotes, or memoirs, or lives of Napoleon delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.”—“Representative Men,” p. 221. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858.

It would be impossible more severely to arraign existing educational methods; for men are what education makes them.