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maton , or there shall come out from that fiery trial a spirit which shall identify tyranny with law , and power with authority . At a military college we have seen this system full blown and in rank perfection : it is an evil thing , we affirm , from end to end . We would
not elevate brute'force br mere seniority over merit or talent ; but we do not remember to have seen a more degrading spectacle than a brave young soldier , tall and fair to see , cruelly beaten by an abortion of a " cadet corporal , " whom it would have been a relief to have seen banished then and there .
How fearful is the immorality of bullying , seems never to be considered by the instructors of our youth : they take severe enough measures against transgressions of a minor order , and allow the hideous joy in another ? s pain to go unpunished and even unreproved The effects of this vice we believe to be more diffusively pernicious than that of most other youthful sins . In the sufferers from it are
engendered envy , hatred , deceit , and in later years the spirit of the anarchic " Mountain" itself ; a broken , morbid spirit such as Cooper ' s , or a turbulent unreasoning soul as Shelley ' s ; in the practice of it is bred a self-sufficient insolence , if nothing more , and the " dogmatism , " wittily described as " puppyism grown up . " Finally , we would remark , that the argument in favour of a large
school , as teaching " the world" to youths of tender age , is greatly overrated : he sees , indeed , some forms of vice as bad as any he will meet with in an average lifetime , and specimens of tyranny such as grown men dare not practise ; but school is , after all , a place per se vitally different from the great world beyond it .
We ourselves have small desire to see young English gentlemen fade into effeminate milksops , and only decline to accept brutality as a means to produce manliness , or cruelty as a proof of courage . We believe and know that the tyrant is the bane of English schools , tolerated for some such reason , or no reason , through which we formerly sanctioned the bull-ring and the cock-pit . We think it should not be " mitigated" but extinguished , and that a master who
cannot put it down is unworthy of the name . The same form of education that we described as best fitted for study , we believe to be also best for moral discipline ; our reason approves of it , and our experience presses it upon us unmistakably : may our advice be taken by some loving father , and his sons grow up to be scholars and philanthropists . These educational remarks , founded upon the principles of charity , and opposed to all ignorance and misrule , are commended to the earnest reflection of all Brother Masons .
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maton , or there shall come out from that fiery trial a spirit which shall identify tyranny with law , and power with authority . At a military college we have seen this system full blown and in rank perfection : it is an evil thing , we affirm , from end to end . We would
not elevate brute'force br mere seniority over merit or talent ; but we do not remember to have seen a more degrading spectacle than a brave young soldier , tall and fair to see , cruelly beaten by an abortion of a " cadet corporal , " whom it would have been a relief to have seen banished then and there .
How fearful is the immorality of bullying , seems never to be considered by the instructors of our youth : they take severe enough measures against transgressions of a minor order , and allow the hideous joy in another ? s pain to go unpunished and even unreproved The effects of this vice we believe to be more diffusively pernicious than that of most other youthful sins . In the sufferers from it are
engendered envy , hatred , deceit , and in later years the spirit of the anarchic " Mountain" itself ; a broken , morbid spirit such as Cooper ' s , or a turbulent unreasoning soul as Shelley ' s ; in the practice of it is bred a self-sufficient insolence , if nothing more , and the " dogmatism , " wittily described as " puppyism grown up . " Finally , we would remark , that the argument in favour of a large
school , as teaching " the world" to youths of tender age , is greatly overrated : he sees , indeed , some forms of vice as bad as any he will meet with in an average lifetime , and specimens of tyranny such as grown men dare not practise ; but school is , after all , a place per se vitally different from the great world beyond it .
We ourselves have small desire to see young English gentlemen fade into effeminate milksops , and only decline to accept brutality as a means to produce manliness , or cruelty as a proof of courage . We believe and know that the tyrant is the bane of English schools , tolerated for some such reason , or no reason , through which we formerly sanctioned the bull-ring and the cock-pit . We think it should not be " mitigated" but extinguished , and that a master who
cannot put it down is unworthy of the name . The same form of education that we described as best fitted for study , we believe to be also best for moral discipline ; our reason approves of it , and our experience presses it upon us unmistakably : may our advice be taken by some loving father , and his sons grow up to be scholars and philanthropists . These educational remarks , founded upon the principles of charity , and opposed to all ignorance and misrule , are commended to the earnest reflection of all Brother Masons .