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This little book is nothing but a study of the original contributions made to education by the handworkers and mechanics of the race. For a long time the relation between these doers and thinkers was never fairly realized or accepted. They stood apart. They seem to stand apart still. The tool and the man were separated. Sometimes the tool was worshipped, while the man who made it was despised as a slave. There were magic swords, like King Arthur's, made by nameless workers. And yet the study of the human organism was attempted. "Know thyself," cried the great Greek; and the thinkers strove to know themselves.

They strove very honestly. All the great religions are founded in hygiene. But the contempt for hand