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estimates of value and method do not pass current. The all- sufficiency of the normal world to meet every demand of the human being is a tale rather than a principle. Of no time in history is this so true as now. Under the very caption of a heaven-soaring idealism, men are busy preaching a gross mate- rialism. "Make men better!" But how? "Mend the body, mend the purse, mend the laws!" But seldom is it said, "Mend men themselves, by pointing them to greater possibilities their own." Behold our interest in the school ! In how far has it ceased to be sophistic ? In how far has it ceased to contribute formal powers ? And yet it must become Socratic, pointing men within themselves, enabling them to re-collect themselves. And because the school, and nothing but the school, can do this, it must ever hold the largest place in the attention of men. Not the school which is in the schoolhouse alone, but every form which can serve to organize the world into human experience. We must drive out the word need by bringing back the word culture, which is over-need, fullness. And even at the present day, when men shake their heads ominously at such a doctrine, it must be reasserted that human salvation is in consciousness, and in and through a larger and richer development of con- sciousness than men have heretofore attained.

ERNEST CARROLL MOORE. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.