THE MAGIC OF EDUCATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 971, 16 June 1883, Page 4

THE MAGIC OF EDUCATION.

Ji^ea; I was a boy,, said Professor t Huxley, in an address delivered before 1 the Liverpool Institute, I was very fond of nJ^Jc, f Und i ,X am so now;and it so : happened that I had-the opportunity of good music.. Among othe? had abundant' opportu-1 aides of,heappg that great old master, Sebastian Each. I remember perfectly 1 knew nothing about music lHett/t'and, I may add, know nothing whatever . about it now—tha intense satisfaction and deligm l wHifch' 1 had in listening by W£ t%e ». hquc together to Bach’s fugues. 'lt is a pleasure which remains wiUqsmfc, l am' glad to think, but of late years I have tried to find out the ~ vf’hdfefot'e, ’and "it has often occurred that- the; .pleasure in? muffl&l B TOmpojMtipns of this kind is essentially same< nature as i Is?, derived;, from pursutteVhifihc! are commonly regarded as pure^Sintellectual 1 mean that the as ifcPttidst^of 8 my problems in morpho-logT-rtbat you. have.;tbe theme in one. of the old masters’ works' followed but In fcpU nits .endless variations, always appealing and always reminding you of unity in variety, ‘ So in painting.; whapQs - truth to nature is the intellectual demerit.’ 'coining in, and depends entirely upon the^nmlfectualj culture of, the person to addressed. If yon are in ydu.*may get credit for being aP good artist—l mean among caifl kangaroo after .a, fashipiVr among men of j the intellectual knowledge wacpossess brings its critiof works of art, and we are obliged to satisfy it as Md*ff Vfttiire. : “Arid so the higher of those whom att addresses; 'the more exact and pre,b^rwhit we call its “ truth to nature.” If me-> tum to literature the you find works of literaturewhich may, be said to be, sbng, of Shakespeare or (SSetfte is 3 pgi£“ flirt,; although its inA senes of pictures ri®made-to- pass hbeforesqriShrsjniiDds'by; ithe -meanbig oi words, and the effect is. a melody “of le&^^e l the literature„y?c note inempjtecjMVsejhaying- artistic form, but Defuse of its intellectual content, j&llfje j higher the more; and itue is that intel- ‘ lectual««tri{# ifjjrptf Jiu; gt s^e^lc, ; ]bf; .tii? ’very jit^twlc,' do we not regardtnem as highest, simply because the moretfH&jkriPW.thei truer- they seetn, and fhO rtioßeocochpeteut we are 1 to ap l predate beautyethe-iridre beautiful they ne?wi|&n6fif SHaketKe ypungr est beirig that ne satisfies the artistic instinct of the .hafmbiußes r whh : the of the oidesL I have said thifMtidftbdraw ydiir * the ipod of all diis matter, and at the i>y the men of science on the one hand and the men of literature and history and art oqjhe. other... It is not a question whether ope order of study should predominate or that another should. It is

a qu«wn' ; <tf whattopics of education which shall combine all tbeAeed%d : in" such due pro-, £og[ye! the .greatest amount of good supporj.andencourage- . meJUJtollbosedacuhiea which enable us to appreciate truth, and to profitby thoe? lPf inrtocent happiness' - ! us, and at the sain^J^me^to '‘avojd/that Which . is >ni| to - keep clear ot the multitude' of .pitfalls andftfldangers.<«hich beset 'Jhose whtf break through the : natural or morkl gyguT ba» il» 10 .juT i-j ; T JSirafd spates, that a eonqfayq, nWW ;-jatdyi itha „yicfim of . misplaced .when' jm, secured two con'Wf# i!!P u K|wg .vessels in poet. Since ’then Tie had amnmin&» r, br,ain. ’i“ , the hanoora Daisy character, as if it,.was woU &shedjlWr'Qsra Customs. ))usiSiMmer ' slafeß‘ty,\»id W-as; .it » ihgi g*! l 4?, .2)/* degre?* under” proof of ’ “ /jCo,. sqlye hi»;4jWttoJtP a "policeman,. qmctoyd Ma pace- So.-Aclthe:man t in, blue*, and ffie people in Queen at last matdaagains|Jtitoei be tween, the -pair, Jj; At the fiLUrey' ; street Mtfia opnsfabl^ owwaKpii mah,,and,i q the mopt lainb- ! w h^s h»TOyou got in the sit?' The.guiltstricken offenderwas dumb, and. silently opening hftkit, revealed, to the' gaze of the .disgusted guardian of the peace a p«B|IU i r w i*'* ’■■■' ' f> \ - ' “ joggles.” in the Australasian, tells the. : following though not quite new story : Arohdbpjfon of New Zealand, was a gentleman remarkable for getting into an innocent medr> dleaomenesß. Shortly after landings in En»^|jl[npop ( w hriet holiday tour, howaa waflung s|onW.,a .paiJ.way platform, ; when ,be,dMoM| .yards ill front of him a gentleman whose back he recognised as Zealapd friend. In-i spired oy sn impulse to playfully surprise hu ridoJlpqujiiDtanoe, ,the Archdeacon - plookea at a pookethandkerohief- which was an ..instant th® i stalwart hand of a policeman was on: his edme quietly,”' ■aidthe guardian of the peace. “You mistake gM&sapd thq prisoner. “ I am Archdesoon M-—»n<ofi,inNaw Zealand,” pototjggt,Jtes (trie . clerical attire. “ uh, that won’t do,” said his captor; “ that game if) f&APe&ieilt renumstratea the archdeacon, “ that gentle- . man jgMfnWtiiw a frlen Jof mine. Ask him who I' ’am.” To this reasonable I ftqnqrtiiltW »so«n>ah. acceded. Overtaking i fie reverend gentlemen’s friend, I . the policeman tapped him on the back, £ and as bgntWßf&ftubd the- archdeacon saw, to hie huxiwrv'the. face of an entire ;. Stranger. * * JhM parson, v said the police:;iman, “just now picked your pocket. ? says you’re ;a;H friend of his?” “ Never saw him before in my life!” the reply. ,CArtd the' policeman now ot an accomplished { l.f lnposterv ran hjm in. ' It was only by : communicating with. the. Bishop of Lich- , he bad served in the 500Eflr« that the sportive X; ■ 'AfehdeaQgn after a .time obtained bis re- ’

—An accident, resulting in the loss 'Wf lif©y oecurred- iti-th©—Harbor-last uightr, ■ the victim being a man named Thomas O’Keefe. It appears that as Mr Francis Queenon was walking up the Queen’s Wharf about a quarter past nine o’clock bis attention was attracted by a loud Splash in the water, and on rushing to the aide of the pier he saw a man struggling lor his life. Mr Queenon at once went to Where thesteamer.HuUjWas lying, for the purpose of procuring rescuing the man, but finding vessel, he the, wharf, antf'foutm'What «Whe interval the cjrowning ppnson had disappeared fc.oqk. eight. WhilslnSSTWraa •’the *Huia, d young man, who was escorting a lady ■■ friend up the pier, also saw someone struggling in the water, and running oyer to the waterman’s stops procured a lifebuoy, ;whi?h he threw (to th,? deceased, who, however, failed to catch hold of it, aind immediately afterwards the man sank. Sir Sergeant, chief officer of the ship Halcione, and two of the seamen belonging to that vessel commenced dragging foy the body, and succeeded in iV about 11 o’cloo c. The corpse Was taken §sses»ion of by Sergeant Ready and two nstables, and by them conveyed to the orgue. The deceased, who was about iqrty-five years of age, was dressed in a] tweed suit,:: and li&£n ti fied'. this morning by a bian named Michael Cosg|ave, as Thomas O’Keefe, who has for some time past resided in the Wairarapa, \xKeefe came down from Masterton three or four days ago. and since his arrival, it is said, he drank very heavily. »There is no evidence at present to show how the accident occurred, but it is suppbaed that in walking along the edge of tl|e wharf when intoxicated deceased stkmbled against some obstruction and was precipitated into the water, probably sthnning himself in the fall. It is understood that he has no relations in the cdlony.