ESSENTIALS OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION :
HUXLEY.

1 take it that the whole object of education is, in the first
Place, to train the faculties of the young in such a manner
as to give their possessors the best chance of being happy and
useful in their gemeration; and, in the second place, to
Jurnisk them with the most important portions of that immense
 capitalized experience of the human race which we
call knowledge of various kinds. I am using the term
knowledge in its widest possible sense ; and the question is,
what subjects to select by training and discipline, in which
the object I have just defined may be best attained,
I must call your attention further to this fact, that all
the subjects of our thoughts—all feelings and propositions
(leaving aside our sensations as the mere materials and
occasions of thinking and feeling), all our mental Surniture
—may be classified under one of two heads—as either within
the province of the intellect, something that can be put into
propositions and affirmed or denied ; or as within the province
 of feeling, or that which, before the name was defiled,
was called the esthetic side of our nature, and which can
neither be proved nor disproved, but only felt and known.
According to the classification which I have put before
you, then, the subjects of all knowledge ave divisible into
two groups, matters of science and matters of art ; for all
things with which the reasoning Jaculty alone is occupied,
come under the province of science; and in the broadest
sense, and not in the navvow and technical sense is which