Social organizations and spiritual and ethical direction should be the prime ends sought, and the appeal to the heart should only slowly and late give place to the intellect.

Historic scholarship itself is too noble a thing to ripen properly without this long incubation, and to develop political and com munal virtue is higher and should be ever its condition pre cedent To train youth to social service as useful members of society is primarily the education of the feelings and the will, that are both larger and older than the intellect, which is their servant, and even self-interest rightly understood ripens naturally into altruism.

1 The few years of schooling is only the very end of a process that in a sense has run through eons.

The school merely puts on the final touches; for all organic evolution may be regarded as educational, Letour- neau speaks of spontaneous and organic training.

Nature first adjusts the body to the physical environment; then the social adjustment marks a higher stage.