text:  The conclusion to be drawn from this is not that education is hopeless and should be abandoned in relation to the great bulk of men--for we every day in detached instances have proof of its immense and blessed influence; the conclusion is that it is by the active not the intellectual powers the desires not the understanding that the great majority of men are governed; that it is the vast addition civilisation and commerce make to the wants and passions of men which constitutes the real cause of its demoralizing influence; and that these dangers never will be obviated till means are discovered of combating sin with its own weapons and by desires as extensively felt as its passions