(2) The same is true of Education. Who can measure the time, money and strength that have beer given to bring this angel of light into the homes of the people. Tt ha been a passion of the human soul, when Tyndale courted martyrdom in order that "every ploughman England might read the Bible in his own tongue." The same passion is alive in the world to-day; in this Iand for instance it is begetting a Femnaissance. Spenser's picture in the "Feerie Queen" of Urra and the Lion breaking into the hovel of, Ignorance and Superstiti well be reproduced in China to-day.
But—the cause of Education knows that warning word fas the cause of Liberty d Education can run on wrong lines as easily as on lines that are right. It is foolish to give it a free rein as if it were a final goo}. "Knowledge is strength" indeed, but for evil as well as for good. It helps the forger, the bogus company-promoter Jand every kind of crook. It can be dedicated to the devil by the pro-'Guetion of explosive and gasses that fare conceived in cruelty. If crimes innumerable are committed in. the name of Liberty (in Madame Roland's phrase) it is as true that. they are committed by the power lof Education.
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