is looked upon as it ought to be, and begins to be treated more and more as it must and will be wherever true civilization is making its way.  One of the handsomest houses in Liverpool has been purchased for the girls’ school, and room and good arrangement been afforded for their work and their play.  Among other things they are taught, as they ought to be in all American schools, to cut out and make dresses.

I had the pleasure of seeing quotations made from our Boston “Dial,” in the address in which the Director of the Liverpool Institute, a very benevolent and intelligent man, explained to his disciples and others its objects, and which concludes thus:—­

“But this subject of self-improvement is inexhaustible.  If traced to its results in action, it is, in fact, ‘The Whole Duty of Man.’  What of detail it involves and implies, I know that you will, each and all, think out for yourselves.  Beautifully has it been said:  ’Is not the difference between spiritual and material things just this,—­that in the one case we must watch details, in the other, keep alive the high resolve, and the details will take care of themselves?  Keep the sacred central fire burning, and throughout the system, in each of its acts, will be warmth and glow enough.’[A]

[Footnote A:  The Dial, Vol.  I. p. 188, October, 1840, “Musings of a Recluse.”]

“For myself, if I be asked what my purpose is in relation to you, I would briefly reply, It is that I may help, be it ever so feebly, to train up a race of young men, who shall escape vice by rising above it; who shall love truth because it is truth, not because it brings them wealth or honor; who shall regard life as a solemn thing, involving too weighty responsibilities to be wasted in idle or frivolous pursuits; who shall recognize in their daily labors, not merely a tribute to the “hard necessity of daily bread,” but a field for the development of their better nature by the discharge of duty; who shall judge in all things for themselves, bowing the knee to no sectarian or party watchwords of any kind; and who, while they think for themselves, shall feel for others, and regard their talents, their attainments, their opportunities, their possessions, as blessings held in trust for the good of their fellow-men.”

I found that The Dial had been read with earnest interest by some of the best minds in these especially practical regions, that it had been welcomed as a representative of some sincere and honorable life in America, and thought the fittest to be quoted under this motto:—­

  “What are noble deeds but noble thoughts realized?”