CHAPTER II.

THE MAJESTY OF TOOLS.

Tools the highest Text-books. -- How to Use them the Test of Scholarship. -- They are the Gauge of Civilization. -- Carlyle’s Apostrophe to them. -- The Typical Hand-tools. -- The Automata of the Machine-shop. -- Through Tools Science and Art are United. -- The Power of Tools. -- Their Educational Value. -- Without Tools Man is Nothing; with Tools he is All. -- It is through the Arts alone that Education touches Human Life. 7