But let it be distinctly understood that this, and this only, has been the object of this chapter thus far.

The first point brought up was the desirableness of making at first a favorable impression; the second, the necessity of taking general views of the condition of the school, and aiming to improve it in the mass, and not merely to rebuke or punish accidental faults; and the third, the importance and the means of gaining a general influence and ascendency over the minds of the pupils.

But, though an overwhelming majority can be reached by such methods as these, all can not.

We must have the majority secured, however, in order to enable us to reach and to reduce the others.

But to this work we must come at last.
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