CHAPTER XX.

AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION -- _Continued._

The Training of the Merchant, the Lawyer, the Judge, and the Legislator contrasted with that of the Artisan. -- The Training of the Merchant makes him Selfish, and Selfishness breeds Dishonesty. -- Professional Men become Speculative Philosophers, and test their Speculations by Consciousness. -- The Artisan forgets Self in the Study of Things. -- The Search after Truth. -- The Story of Palissy. -- The Hero is the Normal Man; those who Marvel at his Acts are abnormally Developed. -- Savonarola and John Brown. -- The New England System of Education contrasted with that of the South. -- American Statesmanship -- its Failure in an Educational Point of View. -- Why the State Provides for Education; to protect Property. -- The British Government and the Land Question. -- The Thoroughness of the Training given by Schools of Mechanic Art and Institutes of Technology as shown in Things. -- Story of the Emperor of Germany and the Needle-maker. -- The Iron Bridge lasts a Century, the Act of the Legislator wears out in a Year. -- The Cause of the Failures of Justice and Legislation. -- The best Act is the Act that Repeals a Law; but the Act of the Inventor is never Repealed. -- Things the Source and Issue of Ideas; hence the Necessity of Training in the Arts. 229