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40 The Decline and Fall read and to write by all means, and if he has a taste for good literature encourage him, in every possible way, to indulge it ; but if you wish him to be an intelligent son of the soil do not, in heaven's name, leave him ignorant of the laws which condi- tion man's success in his great struggle against the forces of nature. This is to court disaster; for the children of such a limp education will inevitably despise manual labour and the crafts, and persist in think- ing that to sit on an office stool in Tokio and read Scrappy Bits at lunch is nobler than to be an intelligent farmer or artisan. This is precisely what happened in England. The children of the masses grew to despise labour, and to think that a gentleman was one who was ashamed to use his hands. It followed that far too many young men, forsaking the sea, forsaking
of the British Empire 41 the land, and forsaking the handi- crafts, entered upon a business career; till the increasing competi- tion which ensued led to widespread commercial dishonesty* and the general stagnation of trade. If the education of boys in the National Schools of England was unpractical and contrary to the primitive laws of nature, that of the girls was equally wanting in common sense. The Report on Physical Degeneration, referred to above, makes it clear that the girls trained under the system were in the majority of cases ignorant of cooking, of hygiene, and of domestic economy. How the English fancied that they could establish a lasting Empire on the basis of a literary or commercial training alone, will always remain a mystery. Books are excellent things, and the fact * See newspapers of the period.
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