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232 TIIF. 8I'RI:O;I;-TlJIU: or Lit'£,
ami not (If gray lwir~. If Illrn are eyer to lxr
come wstin6ruishcd in any branch of scicnec,
or any uscful and honomble C3.11ing, the foun-
(h\tiou must generally be laid in early lift,.
The exceptions are so few as to weigh nothing
tlhrainst an cstabli!:lhcu rule. It is in the moru.
ing of one's dU)"H that the mind is expansive,
the heart impres.-.;ible, the memory rct(ntiYt~,
and that habits of applicntion ure ('uRily furmod.
This is tbe golJcn period, whcll the 8ccds of future
Clilincncc Illllst be ~wcd. A life, the Lright
and cheerful part of which i~fpent in idlcnc:"s
and folly, is almost SUT.., to end in ignoranoo
and mi.~ry.
My theme is, tho culth'ntion of the mind,
and I havtl no fi~r of overstating its illlporlauctl.
It relates .to the enlargement of tho
scope of thought, memory and reflection, or in
other wor~ to the iU\'eBting of mall with hi:i
own appropriato dignity and wurth. ,\~e call
the procc.ss by which it is done, education, but
by this, we mean not so much the gi\