He has told us that the one great question that education is of value for answering, is this very question that was so earnestly asked by Mill.

'_The ultimate end of education_,' says Professor Huxley, '_is to promote morality and refinement, by teaching men to discipline themselves, and by leading them to see that the highest, as it is the only content, is to be attained not by grovelling in the rank and steaming valleys of sense, but by continually striving towards those high peaks, where, resting in eternal calm, reason discerns the undefined but bright ideal of the highest good--"a cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night_."' And these words are an excellent specimen of the general moral exhortations of the new school.
Now all this is very well as far as it goes; and were there not one thing lacking, it would be just the answer that we are at present so anxious to elicit.

But the one thing lacking, is enough to make it valueless.

It may mean a great deal; but there is no possibility of saying exactly what it means.

Before we can begin to strive towards the 'highest good,' we must know something of what this 'highest good' is.
We must make this 'higher ideal' stand and unfold itself.