The child, when grown to manhood, may employ the education, as he might employ the money, badly; but that is no argument against the possession of either.
Of course, the value of education, as of money, chiefly consists in its proper use.

And one of the advantages of knowledge is, that the very acquisition of it tends to increase the capability of using it aright; which is certainly not the case with the accumulation of money.
Education, however obtained, is always an advantage to a man.

Even as a means of material advancement, it is worthy of being sought after,--not to speak of its moral uses as an elevator of character and intelligence.
And if, as Dr.Lyon Playfair insists, the composition between industrial nations must before long become a competition mainly of intelligence, it is obvious that England must make better provision for the education of its industrial classes, or be prepared to fall behind in the industrial progress of nations.
"It would be of little avail," said Dr.Brewster of Edinburgh, "to the peace and happiness of society, if the great truths of the material world were confined to the educated and the wise.

The organization of science thus limited would cease to be a blessing.

Knowledge secular, and knowledge divine, the double current of the intellectual life-blood of man, must not merely descend through the great arteries of the social frame; it must be taken up by the minutest capillaries before it can nourish and purify society.