Till lately your boys have been as untaught and unwarned as ours.

In your boarding-schools, as in ours, they are removed from the purifying influence of mother and sisters.

They are just at the age which has neither the delicacy of childhood nor of early manhood.
Rest assured that conditions will breed like results.
"My belief, not lightly formed," says Dr.Butler,[13] "is, that none of the great schools can congratulate themselves on anything like safety from this danger.

And if this is true of the great public schools, it is still more true of private schools, where the evil is admittedly greater.

Boys and masters alike may strangely deceive themselves; the evil may hide very close.