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Wake him up; make an English citizen
of him. Teach him how to deal with men as men, to write a
straightforward business letter, manage his own money and gain some
respect for those industrial movements which control the world. Next,
two years in some wilder part of the world, where his own countrymen
and equals by birth are settled under primitive conditions, and have
formed their rough codes of society. The intercourse with such people
would be a capital invested for life. The next two years should be
spent in the great towns of Europe, in order to remove awkwardness of
manner, prejudices of race and feeling, and to get the outward forms of
a European citizen. All this would sharpen his wits, give him more
interest in life, more keys to knowledge. It would widen his horizon.
Then, and not a minute sooner, to the University, where he would go not
as a child but a man capable of enjoying its real advantages, attend
lectures with profit, acquire manners instead of mannerisms and a
University tone instead of a University taint.


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