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earnest and fairly intelligent appeal for added attention to the personal elements and the moral forces and ideals involved in the very process of education will meet with response, equally earnest and intelligent, from numbers of the teachers in our day and land. And if even a few of those belonging to the class of workmen, to whom the author has been proud and glad to belong, are helped in any way by his words, he will be much more than amply rewarded. In bringing these thoughts before those inter- ested in education in this country, the form of spoken lectures has been preserved as best adapted for the familiar style in which they were originally presented. But, of course, in preparing them for an audience in the United States, not only much of the details, and of the illustrative mate- rial, but no inconsiderable part of more important formal matters, has been changed. George Trumbull Ladd. New Haven, June, 1911.