The policeman and the soldier will continue for an indefinite period to be guardians of the national schools, and the nations have no reason to be ashamed of this fact.

It is merely symbolic of the very comprehensiveness of their responsibilities--that they have to deal with the problem of human inadequacy and unregeneracy in all its forms,--that they cannot evade this problem by allowing only the good boys to attend school--that they cannot even mitigate it by drawing too sharp a distinction between the good boys and the bad.

Such indiscriminate attendance in these national schools, if it is to be edifying, involves one practical consequence of dominant importance.
Everybody within the school-house--masters, teachers, pupils and janitors, old pupils and young, good pupils and bad, must feel one to another an indestructible loyalty.

Such loyalty is merely the subjective aspect of their inevitable mutual association; it is merely the recognition that as a worldly body they must all live or die and conquer or fail together.

The existence of an invincible loyalty is a condition of the perpetuity of the school.