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veloped their physical nature, and made them at any rate strong and healthy; also, being keen and intelligent they kept their eyes and ears constantly open to everything which interested them, and so picked up all manner of really useful knowledge unconsciously. Moreover those who had any special tastes could not be restrained from developing them: they would learn what they wanted to learn and liked, in spite of obstacles which seemed rather to urge them on than to discourage them, while for those who had no special aptitude for anything, the loss of time was of comparatively little moment; but in spite of these alleviations of the mischief, I cannot doubt that infinite damage was done to the children of the sub-wealthy classes. The poorer children suffered far less; destruction and death say that they have heard the sound of wisdom with their cars; in many respects poverty has done so also.

On the morning after my arrival Mr Thims took me the round of the city, which delighted me more and more at every turn. I dare not trust myself with any attempt at description of the exquisite beauty of the different colleges, and their walks and gardens. Truly in these things alone there must be a hallowing and refining influence which is in itself half an education, and which no amount of error can wholly spoil. I was introduced to many of the professors, who showed me every hospitality and kindness; nevertheless I could hardly avoid a sort of suspicion that some of those whom I was taken to see had been so long engrossed in their own study of hypothetics that they had become the exact antitheses of the Athenians in the days of St. Paul; for whereas the Athenians spent