It seemed like being again in my own school,
save that a wiser wisdom directs, and a lovelier love presides over
its order and teachings. He is not yet thirty years of age, but he
has more genius for education than any man I have seen, and not of
children alone, but he possesses the rare art of teaching men and
women. What I have dreamed and stammered, and preached, and prayed
about so long, is in him clear and definite. It is life, influence,
reality. I flatter myself that I shall bring him with me on my
return. He cherishes hopes of making our land the place of his
experiment on human culture, and of proving to others the worth of
the divine idea that now fills and exalts him."
In consequence of Mr. Greaves's persuasion, which seems to be
shared by his friends, that the special remedy for the evils of
society at the present moment is association; perhaps from a more
universal tendency, which has drawn in many of the best minds in this
country also to accuse the idealism, which contents itself with the
history of the private mind, and to demand of every thinker the
warmest dedication to the race, this class of which we speak are
obviously inclined to favor the plans of the Socialists.
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