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The young are to be brought up in happy surroundings, out of the

way of sights or sounds which may hurt the character or vitiate

the taste. They are to live in an atmosphere of health; the

breeze is always to be wafting to them the impressions of truth

and goodness. Could such an education be realized, or if our

modern religious education could be bound up with truth and

virtue and good manners and good taste, that would be the best

hope of human improvement. Plato, like ourselves, is looking

forward to changes in the moral and religious world, and is

preparing for them. He recognizes the danger of unsettling young

men's minds by sudden changes of laws and principles, by

destroying the sacredness of one set of ideas when there is

nothing else to take their place.