CHAPTER VI.

CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY.
All things by immortal power
Near or far
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.

—FRANCIS THOMPSON,

Scientific truth is objective and not subjective; it must be open to all
eyes and not a vision limited to the consciousness of one mind. The distinction
 between this kind of truth which we can all examine for ourselves
if we wish, and the truth which is a matter of personal conviction, is
fundamental.——ProrF, R, A. GREGORY.

Scientific inquiry, though it be pre-eminently an intellectual effort, has
need of the moral quality of courage—not so much the courage which
helps a man to face a sudden difficulty as the courage of steadfast endurance.
 —SIR MicHAEL FOSTER.

THE main directions in which reform must take place in
order to make our public schools thoroughly efficient
training grounds for the battle of life and for the international
 competition of the future, have now been indicated :
it remains for us to consider whether they can be sufficiently
 modernized, and, if they can, whether the conservative
 factors at present dominating the situation will
permit of these reforms taking place.
In the first instance no satisfactory remodelling of the
whole institution is possible under a classical regime and
there seems little likelihood of this retarding influence