For the empirical practitioner, if he chance to meet the educated physician talking to his patient, and entering into the philosophy of his disease, would burst out laughing and say, as doctors delight in doing, 'Foolish fellow, instead of curing the patient you are educating him!' 'And would he not be right ?' Perhaps; and he might add, that he who discourses in our fashion preaches to the citizens instead of legislating for them.

'True.' There is, however, one advantage which we possess--that being amateurs only, we may either take the most ideal, or the most necessary and utilitarian view.

'But why offer such an alternative?
As if all our legislation must be done to-day, and nothing put off until the morrow.

We may surely rough-hew our materials first, and shape and place them afterwards.' That will be the natural way of proceeding.

There is a further point.