"Education Does Not Insure Virtue."
It is well for many sincere and would-be-reformers to take to heart the above expression by Mr. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, in an article on Cæsar Borgia, the great Italian criminal. He goes on to remark that a great deal of the scientific talk considers ignorance a vice, and seems to think that the vicious are always from the ignorant classes; but the history of the world demonstrates very frequently that the opposite is the case. He declares "the study of the great Italian will perhaps turn the eyes of all the modern people toward this simple historical fact, that education does not insure virtue, and perhaps it will get rid of that most snobbish and most silly phrase, 'the criminal classes.' If an Italian in Borgia's time had spoken of the criminal classes he would probably have meant the upper classes." There is but one kind of knowledge which will suppress vice and crime and sin, and that is knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.