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FOREWORD. THE world to-day is confronted by a multitude of problems not merely waiting, but pressing, for solution. Divers and manifold, entangled and intertwined, ns these problems are. they all depend in the last resort on Education. Political, industrial, artistic, and religious problems, all will be solved, provisionally at least, when we have reached a provisional solution of the educational difficulty. The methods by which we have attempted to solve the educational problem in the past nre many and various, but none can be called successful. We have not yet found the way. There is only one educative agent conviction. Now conviction, the basis of religion, is only another name for creative energy in thought. Creative energy results from the liberation of the life force. This liberation is the first concern of education. The nurture of that force is the next, and the transformation of it into the manifold forms of individual and social activity the last and continual labour of continued education. As a people we are very far from realising that politics, religion, art. and industry are only parts of a great educational process, that each is only worthy of its name in so far as each subserves and directs all its energies to a furtherance of that process. If we ask. What is Education ? only one answer is possible. Education is a way of life which not only brings to fruition all the faculties of mind. body, and soul, but also employs those faculties in such wise as to enable each individual to realise the utmost of the divinity within, the most perfect relations with all other individuals, and the completest service to the whole community. 'llius education appears as the true guardian and guide, the true director of life regarded as religion, as art. as industry, or as politics in the true sense of the word, and each of these again appears as an agent of true education. of Unhappily Industry, as at present organised, is the arch destroyer life, and it is the great antagonist of Education : but Industry—by