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Show 84 BY PATH AND TRAIL. tHought, " So, after all is said and done, education is very much a matter of locality. In large centers of popula tion the theologian, the philosopher, the scientist, is a great man ; but thrown on his own resources, on the wide deserts, in the immense forests, he is a nobody and dies. On the other hand, the man bred to desert ways or trained to forest life, is the educated man in the wilder ness, for he has conquered its- secrets. That training,, then, apart from the supernatural, which best prepares a man to succeed in his sphere, which develops the facul ties demanded by his occupation or calling, which makes him an honest, rugged, manly man, is education in the best acceptance of the often ill- used term." |