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There is a certain truth in this, but it is not a whole truth; for there is Socrates a compendium of all the ancient virtues, consistent throughout, and who formed himself in the manner Hawthorne describes. It is true that in a search after rare and exceptional virtues we are apt to lose sight of the more homely kind which form the bone and sinew of human-life.
It is the Western standard of values, the Western way of looking at things, which is in question, and which I must now attempt to determine. That I should have to undertake this task is a proof of the complexity of education, of the bewildering tanglement of its root-system, of the depths to which some of its roots descend into the subsoil of human-life.
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