And now do just look at that merry
little Chinese waiter holding an umbrella, big enough for a bed-tester,
over the head of that pretty insipid half-Madonna-ish chit of a lady in
that very blue summer-house."
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 4: From "Last Essays of Elia," 1833.]
[Footnote 5: The hays: an old English dance.]
[Footnote 6: Speciosa miracula: beautiful marvels.]
[Footnote 7: Piscator: The Angler--the author's spokesman in Walton's
"The Complete Angler."]
[Footnote 8: Charles Cotton, a humorist of the seventeenth century.]
WHAT IS EDUCATION?[9]
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
What is education? Above all things, what is our ideal of a thoroughly
liberal education?--of that education which, if we could begin life
again, we would give ourselves--of that education which, if we could
mould the fates to our own will, we would give our children? Well, I
know not what may be your conceptions upon this matter, but I will tell
you mine, and I hope I shall find that our views are not very
discrepant.
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one
of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game
of chess.
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