THE CULTURE DEMANDED BY MODERN LIFE; A SERIES OF ADDRESSES AND ARGUMENTS ON THE CLAIMS OF SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION. BY PROFESSORS TYNDALL, HENFREY, HUXLEY, PAGET, WHEWELL, WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON MENTAL DISCIPLINE IN EDUCATION BY E. L. YOUMANS. idward "Scientific Education, apart from professional objects, is but a preparation OF VIS: NEW YORK: John Stuart Mill D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 8, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1887. LB Y66 1887 322710 GIFT Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by D. APPLETON & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. THE system of Popular Education in this country has become an established fact, and the extensive provisions for it in all the States show how generally and thoroughly it is appreciated. But the movement which led to it proceeded from the feeling of a want to be supplied, rather than from any clear perception of the character of the thing wanted. While the struggle was to get it accepted, any thing passing under the nanie of Education-any thing learned from books at stated times and in set places-was sufficient. But the first step being taken and the System secured, the question inevitably arises as to its character, defects, and the means of its improvement; and this is now the supreme consideration. Deeper than all questions of Reconstruction, Suffrage, and Finance, is the question, What kind of culture shall the growing mind of the nation have? The recent and extensive organization of Normal Schools for the more thorough and systematic preparation of Teachers, is proof of a general desire to improve the |