ABSTRACT
Of the many reasons for restricting the range of governmental actions, the strongest remains to be named. The end which the statesman should keep in view as higher than all other ends, is the formation of character. Though not a State-education in the modern sense, the education is one prescribed by custom and enforced by public opinion. With that social progress which forms larger communities regularly governed, there goes a further development of State-education. The system must work towards uniformity. If the measures taken have any effect at all, the effect must in part be that of causing some likeness among the individuals: to deny this is to deny that the process of moulding is operative. Another concomitant must be the production of a passive receptivity of whatever form the State decides to impress.
