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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF
His famous farewell words to the Duke and Duchess of York, as they sailed on the "Ophir" to visit the various Colonies, may, indeed, be said to have been addressed to the Nation at large. "Make your minds easy—we will look after the children." The Nation recognised the fact: its mind was made easy: knowing that everything which could be done for its children—the poor, the sick, the helpless—the King would do: and remembering the words of his first speech as Monarch,—
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I am fully determined to be a Constitutional Sovereign in the strictest sense of the word, and, as long as there is breath in my body, to work for the good and amelioration of my people.
(1901)
In the salient matter of education he took, as might be expected, a very deep interest: and he did not treat it on
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