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Western Star, Issue 261, 7 September 1878, Page 7

We may look down as much as we please on our grandfathers’ ideas, but their notions on some subjects were more rational than ours. It is better that, a boy should learn to make a shoe excellently than to write bad exercises in half a dozen languages. The wider we make the area of superficial cultivation, the more we destroy the power of perceiving what good cultivation means, the more we are condemning the generations which are to succeed to creative barrenness and intellectual incapacity. Our men of science are fast satisfying themselves at last that mankind are highly developed apes. This theory could find no hearing while religion and intellectual culture retained their old dominion. Tne Gospel of St. John, the Antigone, or Hamlet, lie external altogether to the sphere of the ape’s activity. The achievements of the nineteenth century, of which it boasts as the final efflorescence of the human soul, lie a great deal nearer to our newijrecognxsed kindred.—Froude.