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We must content ourselves with these few sentences from Mr.
Lane's book, but we shall shortly hear from him again. This is no
man of letters, but a man of ideas. Deep opens below deep in his
thought, and for the solution of each new problem he recurs, with new
success, to the highest truth, to that which is most generous, most
simple, and most powerful; to that which cannot be comprehended, or
overseen, or exhausted. His words come to us like the voices of home
out of a far country.
With Mr. Lane is associated in the editorship of a monthly
tract, called "The Healthian," and in other kindred enterprises, Mr.
Henry G. Wright, who is the teacher of the School at Ham Common, near
Richmond, and the author of several tracts on moral and social
topics.
This school is founded on a faith in the presence of the Divine
Spirit in man. The teachers say, "that in their first experiments
they found they had to deal with a higher nature than the mere
mechanical. They found themselves in contact with an essence
indefinably delicate. The great difficulty with relation to the
children, with which they were first called to wrestle, was an
unwillingness to admit access to their spiritual natures.
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