Ideals to be Sought After.

I therefore propose to show that there are some ideals to be discovered which would ennoble us as colonists in our political action. I go further, and say unless your practical politician has got clear ideals before him, the laws of political and social page 3 life to be remembered and kept, you will find his political action like a mariner without a compass. He will he driven hither and thither with every wind, and you electors will be accusing him perhaps of insincerity, perhaps of "ratting" (laughter), accusing him of all sorts of political crimes, while after all the blame is not so much in him. He may he sincere enough, but has not perhaps set before him a true ideal, to which he is ever striving; and you perhaps for the same reason may have been as wayward as he, and changed hither and thither by the political winds which we know exist, even in colonies. (Laughter.) Let me say before I go further one or two words about the nature of this kind of political education. We hear a great deal of science nowadays. Scientific education, as it is termed, is more popular than classical education. Well, what is political science; what is social science? Isay political science or social science, using the latter to express something more than is ordinarily meant by it, is the grandest of all sciences. (Cheers.)