"OMEGA" AND EDUCATION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 12 September 1868, Page 3

"OMEGA" AND EDUCATION.

(To tht Editor of the Tuaptha Times.)

Sib,— ln the columns of your contemporary, the " Tuapeka Press," of the 6th | current, there is a letter signed "Omega," .ihich purports to treat of " Our Edncaional System and Mr. George Bailey," jut which, as far as I could judge, is i, tissue of personality, abuse, and coinnonplace. The opening portion of thi* grandiloquent production reminds me strongly of the old backing on the lawyer's brief — "No case ; abuse the plaintiffs attorney ; " for, finding it impoßsibla. to meet Mr. Hughes in fair and opes argument, "Omega" descends to the lowest scurrility and most vulgar Billingsgate. I should, indeed, have hesitated in entering on anything like a controversy with such a person— for the old proverb about touching pitch has * very general application — were 1 not alarmed that the impunity allowed in ona case of personality might prove a fatal precedent in time to come. Let "Omega" understand once for all that, among intelligent men, the goodness of a cause) does not depend on the character of it* supporters, but on its own merits, and that among gentlemen abuse is not generally considered either witty or eonvinc* j ing. From a person, however, who takes his political economy from the novels of Charles Dickens, much cannot be ex* pected ; so in pity I would recommend to his earnest study for the next six | months Carlyle's favorite adage— "Speeek lis silvern ; but silence i* golden." As for I the last part of his letter, it is simply \ vox et prokerea nihil; although, with tha | ignorant, his inflated (gaseous, I might I have called it) style may make an inch the importance of a mile, he surely does 1 not expect sensible people to bo so easily taken in.— l am, &c, Censob..