y to the abundant physical exercise he
has enjoyed. His bearing is frank and open, but not insolent or vain.
His face, never glued to his books, is never downcast; you need not
tell him to raise his head, for neither fear nor shame has ever made it
droop.

Make room for him among you, and examine him, gentlemen. Question him
with all confidence, without fear of his troubling you with idle
chatter or impertinent queries. Do not be afraid of his taking up all
your time, or making it impossible for you to get rid of him. You need
not expect brilliant speeches that I have taught him, but only the
frank and simple truth without preparation, ornament, or vanity. When
he tells you what he has been thinking or doing, he will speak of the
evil as freely as of the good, not in the least embarrassed by its
effect upon those who hear him. He will use words in all the
simplicity of their original meaning.

We like to prophesy good of children, and are always sorry when a
stream of nonsense comes to disappoint hopes aroused by some chance
repartee. My pupil seldom awakens such hopes, and will never cause
such regrets: for he never utters an unnecessary word, or wastes breath
in babble to which he knows nobody will listen. If his ideas have a
limited range, they are nevertheless clear. If he knows nothing by
heart, he knows a great deal from experience. If he does not read
ordinary books so well as other children, he reads the book of nature
far better. His mind is in his brain, and not at his tongue's end. He
has less memory than judgment. He can speak only one language, but he
understands what he says: and if he does not say it as well as another,
he can do things far better than they can.

He does not know the meaning of custom or routine. What he did
yesterday does not in any wise affect his actions of to-day. He never
follows a rigid formula, or gives way in the least to authority or to
example. Everything he does and says is after the natural fashion of
his age. Expect of him, therefore, no formal speeches or studied
manners, but always the faithful expression of his own ideas, and a
conduct arising from his own inclinations.

You will find he has a few moral ideas in relation to his own concerns,
but in regard to men in general, none at all. Of what use would these
last be to him, since a child is not yet an active member of society?
Speak to him of liberty, of property, even of things done by common
cons