Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Industrial and Decorative Art in Public Schools: Read at a Meeting of the Association, October 21st, 1880
I will now present to you, as the last consideration, that which was the first, which occurred to me some years ago, when I resolved to do all in my power to popularize the practice of the minor arts. It is their moral in?uence. Do we not all know that there are countless thousands of young people who have no way of em ploying there leisure hours, save in idleness, folly and dissipation? They can make nothing profitable they can do nothing which has aught in common with culture they cannot even amuse themselves rationally or decently. Give any one of them the smallest art, let him or her believe that some proficiency has been obtained, but above all let the practitioner find a little profit as well as pastime in it, and you will have done much to defeat the devil.
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