. North Carolina journal of education . far behind ^Iiebarbarians of the south and north, because it shutsout one man in ten from the social rights of men,from the right to be educated, or at least from thepossibility of using that right. May this barrier burn above my grave in blaz-ing flames. Now, indeed, I know that I lay aweak coal in dank wet straw—but I see a wind,no longer afar off, and it will fan the coal;gradually the wet straw around me will bedried, will become warm, will kindle and ; however wet it may be round me now,it will burn, it will burn! Each of our moral, intellec
. North Carolina journal of education . far behind ^Iiebarbarians of the south and north, because it shutsout one man in ten from the social rights of men,from the right to be educated, or at least from thepossibility of using that right. May this barrier burn above my grave in blaz-ing flames. Now, indeed, I know that I lay aweak coal in dank wet straw—but I see a wind,no longer afar off, and it will fan the coal;gradually the wet straw around me will bedried, will become warm, will kindle and ; however wet it may be round me now,it will burn, it will burn! Each of our moral, intellectual and physicalpowers must depend for its development uponitself alone and not on any artificial external in-fluences. Faith must proceed from faith; thoughtmust proceed from thought; love must proceedfrom love; art, too, must proceed from actual artanfi skill, and not from endless discussions aboutthem. And this return to the true method ofnature for the development of our powers re-quires the work of educatiori to be subordinated. John Henry Pest.^lozzi. to the knowledge of the various laws which con-trol those powers. It is recorded that God opened the heavensto the patriarch of old and showed him aladder leading thither. This ladder is let downto every descendant of Adam; it is offeredto thy child. But he must be taught to climbit. And let him not attempt it by the coldcalculations of the head, or the mere impulsesof the heart; but let all these powers combine,and the noble enterprise will be crowned 4 NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. an elastic step; the voice of children released fromthe hard lot of bearing the burdens of age in ten-der youth, shall ring in mirth on our streets, andthe forgotten man will walk upright in the im-age of his maker. The Journal of Educ.\tion asks the contin-ued co-operation of all friends of humanity in hast-ening this day. The enlistment is for the war. The Womans Aid Society.—Almost everysocial institution is helped,
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