nd its various causes, and generally
the germs of all faults and vicious propensities, which, if not cured at
an early age, would grow into tenacious vices.

From the precautions taken in Montalluyah the schools have become real
nurseries, where the pupil is endowed with knowledge adapted to his
capacity and natural bent, strengthened and graced with valuable habits
and stores of physical and intellectual power.

VII.

CHARACTER-DIVERS--_continued_.

"Respect those who would enable us to obtain the respect of
others."

In former times the education of our children, even of the most gifted,
was entrusted to preceptors who occupied less than secondary positions.

We did not respect or love them much; nay, they were not unfrequently
treated with indignity, and yet it was expected that our children would
respect and love them and the learning they professed to teach.

All, whether men or women, entrusted with the education of the young are
now honoured in Montalluyah, and are high in the State as persons
charged to bring about great and valuable results.

The aid given me by the character-divers and preceptors in carrying out
my plans was incalculable. Their sagacity selected disciples apt for the
duties I required; men with vast powers impelled by good. These men
propagated my doctrines, and vigilantly watched their observance, and a
new vigorous generation soon sprang up, educated to obey my laws, and
further to increase and multiply their beneficent effects.

These moral physicians were chosen at first from men of great sagacity,
gentleness, and powers of observation, and of polished manners.[1]

[Footnote 1: In Montalluyah children are supposed to
acquire so much by imitation, that the candidate for
the office of Djarke and others must possess refined
manners; and even the quality of speaking with elegance
and accuracy is considered necessary both in them and
in the Zicche. The art of speaking and writing with
correctness is imperceptibly acquired from the language
of the preceptors and other models with whom the boy
comes in frequent contact. Grammar, with the exception
of a few leading rules, is not needed, and the boy's
brain is saved much dry and fruitless labour.]

Young men of special aptitude were soon educated to the office, and it
was then that character-divers of marvellous powers sprang up, whose
knowledge of the hu