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hope is to know what it is that we want, and to
demand it. What then is education ?
To educate means to draw out, and if we are to
seek to draw out the human mind we must first
have some clear notion as to what the mind is
like, of what sort those faculties are which are
both the object and means of education.
Suppose some one should tell us that education
 is the development and exercise of human
Reason.
Now Reason is the intellectual faculty, which
distinguishes man from the brutes, and, so far as
we know, man is the only form of life in which
conscious Reason exists—for the rudiments of it
which we find in some animals are negligible.
[tis the intellectual quality which has conquered
material obstacles and raised man from a state of
savagery to his present condition. It judges
itself to be the unique agent of all his knowledge
and attainment, and being not only his highest
mental power but the consciousness of it, he is
perhaps almost incapable of imagining anything
higher. Thus Aristotle, in his definition of God

as the eternal mind and first cause of all, supposes