THE AMALGAMATION QUESTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 248, 19 October 1908, Page 7

THE AMALGAMATION QUESTION.

Can rules or tutors educate The semi-god whom we await. He must be musical, Tremulous, imprcssional, Alive to gentle^ influence, Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit's touch Of mail's or maiden's eye. ' Emerson

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —In reference td amalgamation and sundry, the objection to the mixing of the sexes is very reasonable, for our children's efficiency depends so.much on concentration that separation is the only remedy for digtraction. A few remarks on the teaching of the great Socrates may not be out of place. Socrates' antipathies were strong. against the whole system of acquiring knowledge, as it is termed, for use. TPho thing to be accomplished, he said, is to become true men, and the uses will follow. Does the oak of centuries send out its ■strong arms that they may cast a shadow? On th© contrary, it ascends and spreads, through the vigor of its inner life, and then tribes and nations sit down within the grateful covert. This, in deed, is no idle distinction. Knowledge attained with chieil view to specific uses never forms the man, and is not true knowledge. The teaching of Socrates had this simple message: Ascertain what your mind in verity is and be that. And surely Athens had never a better and nobler character than Socrates.-—- lam etc., : " ' - - M.W. -