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teachers and opportunities that they need. The
schools that would develop at such centres would
furnish the elder married men with every facility,
without interfering with their home-life : and
their attendance at the classes and meetings is
a necessary part of the scheme. There are
details in such a college-life which you could fill
in better than I—these would vary with the fixed
time-table of the working-day. But when work
is over, surely we could draw a picture to outrival
 Rousseau’s Swiss canton! For when they
come home, our young men, after they have
bathed themselves and are conveniently clad,
will meet to eat their supper in that social
hilarity which a youthful company always provides,
 and which our gravest physiologists now
understand to be a pleasure needful to promote
healthy nutrition. And when supper is ended,
they will not, like Rousseau’s peasants, sit down
afresh to manual labour, making Noah’s arks
and clocks and mending chairs, but will be free
to indulge in every kind of mental pastime.
I see some of them with their violins going off
to the orchestra, others bound for the museum