In another speech Mr. Chamberlain dwelt strongly on the necessity
of improving and extending secondary education. We spend 213,000,000 a year on primary schools, and may well, he thought, contribute a few tens of thousands to those of a higher grade. He believed that countries were made at by their educated men, and went so far as to wish for the tune when no man should have a great position "in our f,act5ines, our workshops, or our counting-houses" without aanng succeeded in a University education. When one recalls the history of our most original industrials—Stephen- "; for exalnple—that is going very far, and begs the great question whether on some powerful minds culture has not a weakening influence. We find it a little difficult to think of James Brindley with a University education. He might have been a wider man, but would he have cut the canals ? Still, it is true of the majority. Might we remark in passing on the great loss the cause sustains from our use of the word " secondary " education? In every other connection the word implies "less important than primary."
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