ystem.--How he
replaces them.--Extent of secondary instruction.--Meets all
wants in the new social order of things.--The careers it
leads to.--Special schools.--Napoleon requires them
professional and practical.--The law school.

Superior instruction, the most important of all, remains. For, in this
third and last stage of education, the minds and opinions of young
people from eighteen to twenty-four years of age are fully formed. It is
then that, already free and nearly ripe, these future occupants of busy
careers, just entering into practical life, shape their first general
ideas, their still hazy and half-poetic views of things, their premature
and foregone conclusions respecting man, nature, society and the great
interests of humanity.

If we want them to arrive at sound conclusions, a good many scales must
be prepared for them, and these scales must be substantial, convergent,
each with its own rungs of the ladder superposed, each with an
indication of its total scope, each expressly designating the absent,
doubtful, provisional or simply future and possible rungs, because they
are in course of formation or on trial.[6215]--Consequently, these must
all be got together in a designated place, in adjacent buildings,
not alone the body of professors, the spokes-men of science,
but collections, laboratories and libraries which constitute the
instruments. Moreover, besides ordinary and regular courses of
lectures, there must be lecture halls where, at appointed hours, every
enterprising, knowledgeable person with something to say may speak to
those who would like to listen. Thus, a sort of oral encyclopedia is
organized, an universal exposition of human knowledge, a permanent
exposition constantly renewed and open, to which its visitors, provided
with a certificate of average instruction as an entrance ticket, will
see with their own eyes, besides established science that which is under
of formation, besides discoveries and proofs the way of discovering and
proving, namely the method, history and general progress, the place of
each science in its group, and of this group its place in the general
whole. Owing to the extreme diversity of subjects taught there will be
room and occupation for the extreme diversity of intelligences. Young
minds can choose for themselves their own career, mount as high as their
strength allows, climb up the tree of knowledge each on his own side,
with his own ladder, in h