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if it raises us over the batred and self and the equanimity of mind, to animosities of one class with another the waves of pleasure or pain, to and if it produces in our mind an that stage the soul has progressed echo, that we are not to limit our in his journey. Leaving aside the selves by belonging to a narrow philosophical denomination I will sum circle, but that the whole world is a up in a word that if your mind is manifestation of the self in different in harmony with nature and the forms but with the same faculties touch-stone of conscience is satisfied and that we are all enjoined to live in the performance of duties and in a state of mutual love and coopera- your mind is not agitated by any tion in the name of the Great One action, you are in the cycle of evoluat whose feet we have the same rights tion and in a state of proper educaand privilages. If education throws tion : if not you need more know& lustre of itself in our hearts and ledge, to free you from the illusions succeeds in keeping us aloof from of life and to instill principles of free the temptations in the world, then and liberal education into the recessthat is the proper education and es of your heart. we should welcome it from whatever
It is true that education is source it may come. Education does not consist in
increasing in every community, in
every country and in every pationality, commiting to memory well known
it is true that efforts are being made to pieces of literature, it does not con
make education more practical and sist in making life more artificial and
useful; it is true that intellegent fashionable Real education engenders
heads of different countries are engag. no pride or a higher estimation of the self but makes him more simple,
ed in making researches in various more modest and more polite to
fields of investigations into the ways humanity. Education requires no
of increasing the comforts of humanity; show thereof : it is manifested
it is true that with our increased and perceived wherever it exists in
knowledge, systems of education in its real type and you find on that
different countries are being compared face the splendour of light. Every
and attempts are being made : to soul is crying for knowledge; every
find out and adopt the best methods · soul is searching the truth, every
in every place; it is true that
several men of wisdom and experience soul is groping for happiness, whether the soul succeeds in acquiring the
are trying to find out systems of object of its pursuit is a question for
education which can give the real every individual to solve for him
knowledge that the soul needs and self, and to the extent that it has which can make life most comfortable succeeded in acquiring peace of mind, and happy. The attempts are made control over the self, knowledge of the in every country to make education
