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L'ÉDUCATION DU PEUPLE

4. Education, p. 18-20. — p. 9: That, at least, all the difference which exists between classes or bodies of men is the effect of education, will, we suppose, withount entering into the dispute about individual distinctions, be readily granted ; that it is education wholly which constitutes the remarkable difference between the Turk and the Englishman, and even the still more remarkable difference between the most cultivated European and the wildest savage. Whatever is made of any class of men, we may

then be sure is possible to be made of the whole human race. What a field for exertion ! What a prize to be won! — Stuart Mill, Auiobiography, p. 108: In psychology, his (James Mills) fundamental doctrine was the formation of all human character by circumstances, through the universal Principle of Association, and the consequent unlimited possibility of improving the moral and intellectual condition of mankind by education. Of all his doctrines none was more important than this.

2. Pauper Management; Bowring, vol. VIII, p. 427 note : For examples of the success of the fellow-instruction principle (employing children soon after they have received any branch of instruction in the capacity oflearners, to communicate it to other children in the capacity of teachers), see Dr. Bell’s account of the charity schools at Madras — London, 1787 — and a paper in the Repository, (a periodical collection in two volumes, published ten or twelve years ago), giving an account of the result of the use made of that principle, in a charity school, in the neighbourhood of Paris (le chevalier Paulet. Cf. Traiülés, Code Pénal, Moyens Indirects, chap. xx).

3. Sur l'éducation de John Stuart Mill par son père, v. Stuart Mill, Autobiography, p. 4 sqq.; Graham Wallas, Life of Place, p. 10-71 (lettres de James Mill et journal quotidien tenu par Place pendant son séjour à la campagne chez Bentham, avec Mill) ; et Bain, John Stuart Mill a criticism : with personal recollections, pp. 6-9, lettre de Stuart Mill au frère de Bentham, sir Samuel Bentham, en date du 30 juillet 1819, contenant un récit de son éducation, plus détaillé que celui de l’'Aulobiography.