tried to explain that education was of no value unless it was used for good purposes.  As without some wealth, civilization was impossible, I next sought to show that national and individual wealth depends on the security that is given by law, and on the industry and the thrift which that security encourages.  Land tenure is of the first importance in colonial prosperity, and consideration of the land revenue and the limitations as to its expenditure led me to the necessity for taxation and the various modes of levying it.  Taxation led me to the power which imposes, collects, and expends it.  This involved a consideration of those representative institutions which make the Government at once the master and the servant of the people.  Under this Government our persons and our prosperity are protected by a system of criminal, civil, and insolvent law—­each considered in its place.  Although not absolutely included in the laws we live under, I considered that providence, and its various outlets in banks, savings banks, joint stock companies, friendly societies, and trades unions, were matters too important to be left unnoticed; and also those influences which shape character quite as much as statute laws—­public opinion, the newspaper, and amusements.  As the use of my little book was restricted solely to school hours, my hope that the parents might be helped and encouraged by its teaching was doomed to disappointment.  But the children of 30 years ago, when “The Laws We Live Under” was first published, are the men and women of to-day, and who shall say but that among them are to be found some at least worthy and true citizens, who owe to my little book their first inspiration to “hitch their wagon to a star.”  Last year an enthusiastic young Swedish teacher and journalist was so taken with this South Australian little handbook of civics that he urged on me the duty of bringing it up to date, and embracing women’s suffrage, the relations of the States to the Commonwealth, as well as the industrial legislation which is in many ways peculiar to Australia, but although those in authority were sympathetic no steps have been taken for its reproduction.  Identified as I had been for so many years with elementary education in South Australia, my mind was well prepared to applaud the movement in favour of the higher education of poorer children of both sexes by the foundation of bursaries and scholarships, and the opening up of the avenues of learning to women by admitting them to University degrees.  Victoria was the first to take this step, and all over the Commonwealth the example has been followed.  I am, however, somewhat disappointed that University women are not more generally progressive in their ideas.  They have won something which I should have been very glad of, but which was quite out of reach.  All opportunities ought to be considered as opportunities for service.  As my brother David regarded the possession of honours and wealth as demanding