Yet the task is merely one of adaptation.

It is to take actual conditions and to make them the basis for a large and generous method of education, to perform a difficult idealization doubtless, but not an impossible one.
We apparently believe that the workingman has no chance to realize life through his vocation.

We easily recognize the historic association in regard to ancient buildings.

We say that "generation after generation have stamped their mark upon them, have recorded their thoughts in them, until they have become the property of all." And yet this is even more true of the instruments of labor, which have constantly been held in human hands.

A machine really represents the "seasoned life of man" preserved and treasured up within itself, quite as much as an ancient building does.