dogmatism of parents. Let Logos-teachers boldly claim the right to do for children's minds what the Gymnast does for their bodies, i.e., renew vital elasticity by periodic reversal of attitude, and after a time the public will grow accustomed to the idea that it is some teachers' business to do nothing, except vitalize the minds of children by undoing other people's teaching. The conceit of specialist teachers of all sorts will have to give way before the Logical equation of brain-rhythm, as the conceit of would-be-genteel Mammas has had to give way before the Logic of muscular exercise. And we cannot lay too much stress on this point: the Gymnast is an absolute Nihilist; he does Nothing—except reverse the positions of the muscles; he has no results to show, except increased health and strength. The Logos or Pulsation-doctrine, pure and holy as it is, may, in one sense, be described as the Scavenger of our life. By burning up all that is specious and false, it prevents the development of those abnormal conditions which to the ignorant seem like culture, but which are in reality the product of corruption, the source of disease, and the main cause of insanity.
Those who, of old, attempted to base National Education on the principle of the Logos, or rhythmic pulsation, struck the true key-note at starting. The symbol of the covenant made with man by Infinite Knowledge was the Rainbow; which no man can capture or embalm or enshrine ; which is made by the breaking up of the One Light into many colours, to fade before long into the Unity of white light again; and leaves nowhere in all the world a trace of its ever having existed, except in Man's heart an impression of spiritual beauty, and in his
