Variation o,t" the tly& 'ogen Li~es. [Jour. Frank. [nst, concretion of human thought, either for use or for beauty. In the process, however, the very foundations of human knowledge, we may say of human culture, are l'fid hold of. The mind of man is pressed hy an inexorable necessity ag'ainst the prinml forces of nature~ feeling " God's great hand in that darkness ;" and in stu(tying tile constituent action of these forces, ill learning to al)preeiate their infinite extent, their mqrveh)us power, he is I)rou~ht into direct contact with eternal things. Whether dealing with iron, or textiles, or precious metals, he comes at last to see that these very materials in their last resolution are but emanations of that SUl)reme power, which, clothed though it may be in tile phraseology of' the "Persistence of force," or invested with tile personality of Zeus or Jehovah, pervades all things.
Industrial education therefore, properly coml)rehended ~ means not simply the training for a trade, but tile building up of a good citizen~ who contributes by his thought, expressed by skilled labor, to the happiness of mankind. Trade and commerce are but servants to such a citizen, and by exchanging his products, they link him indissolubly to the preservation of social and political order, as mere accessories to the fifll development of his own spiritual individuality.
And this is industrial education from a business standpoint.