CHAPTER XXI.

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_EGYPT AND GREECE._

Fundamental Propositions. -- Selfishness the Source of Social Evil; Subjective Education the Source of Selfishness and the Cause of Contempt of Labor; and Social Disintegration the Result of Contempt of Labor and the Useful Arts. -- The First Class-distinction -- the Strongest Man ruled; his First Rival, the Ingenious Man. -- Superstition. -- The Castes of India and Egypt -- how came they about? -- Egyptian Education based on Selfishness. -- Rise of Egypt -- her Career; her Fall; Analysis thereof. -- She Typifies all the Early Nations: Force and Rapacity above, Chains and Slavery below. -- Their Education consisted of Selfish Maxims for the Government of the Many by the Few, and Government meant the Appropriation of the Products of Labor. -- Analysis of Greek Character -- its Savage Characteristics. -- Greek Treachery and Cruelty. -- Greek Venality. -- Her Orators accepted Bribes. -- Responsibility of Greek Education and Philosophy for the Ruin of Greek Civilization. -- Rectitude wholly left out of her Scheme of Education. -- Plato’s Contempt of Matter: it led to Contempt of Man and all his Works. -- Greek Education consisted of Rhetoric and Logic; all Useful Things were hence held in Contempt. 247