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Rh to show you that the true ends of tuition can only be fulfilled by means of a course of instruction which brings knowledge into harmony with system, and exhibits thought in the light and symmetry of demonstration.

2. The aim of all education is twofold: it is twofold whether looked at on the side of him that teaches or on the side of him that learns; that is, on the part of the student, one aim is the acquisition of knowledge, the other aim is the development and exercise and cultivation of his intellectual powers. His aim is thus double or twofold: he aims at the attainment of truth, he aims also at getting his capacities of thought called forth, trained, and disciplined. In the same way on the part of the teacher the end or aim of education is twofold: he also has a double function to discharge; he has to aim at the communication of knowledge, and he has moreover to aim at the cultivation and exercise of the faculties of those whom he endeavours to instruct.

3. Another mode in which the distinction may be put is this. Every intellectual pursuit is to be regarded as at once a science and a discipline. These words are indeed little more than two forms of expression for the same thing, and as such they are sometimes used convertibly in our own and in other languages, yet they are not absolutely synonymous. The