pportunity in the ordinary factories to utilize the "instinct for
workmanship"; or, among those more prosperous young people who
establish "studios" and "art shops," in which, with a vast expenditure
of energy, they manufacture luxurious articles.

The educational system in Germany is deliberately planned to sift out
and to retain in the service of industry, all such promising young
people. The method is as yet experimental, and open to many
objections, but it is so far successful that "Made in Germany" means
made by a trained artisan and in many cases by a man working with the
freed impulse of the artist.

The London County Council is constantly urging plans which may secure
for the gifted children in the Board Schools support in Technological
institutes. Educators are thus gradually developing the courage and
initiative to conserve for industry the young worker himself so that
his mind, his power of variation, his art instinct, his intelligent
skill, may ultimately be reflected in the industrial product. That
would imply that industry must be seized upon and conquered by those
educators, who now either avoid it altogether by taking refuge in the
caves of classic learning or beg the question by teaching the tool
industry advocated by Ruskin and Morris in their first reaction
against the present industrial system. It would mean that educators
must bring industry into "the kingdom of the mind"; and pervade it
with the human spirit.

The discovery of the labor power of youth was to our age like the
discovery of a new natural resource, although it was merely incidental
to the invention of modern machinery and the consequent subdivision of
labor. In utilizing it thus ruthlessly we are not only in danger of
quenching the divine fire of youth, but we are imperiling industry
itself when we venture to ignore these very sources of beauty, of
variety and of suggestion.

CHAPTER VI

THE THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

Even as we pass by the joy and beauty of youth on the streets without
dreaming it is there, so we may hurry past the very presence of august
things without recognition. We may easily fail to sense those
spiritual realities, which, in every age, have haunted youth and
called to him without ceasing. Historians tell us that the
extraordinary advances in human progress have been made in those times
when "the ideals of freedom and law, of youth and beauty, of knowledge
and virtue, of humanity and religion, high