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The next thing that impresses me with peculiar significance is that system of popular education which you call the "common school." Through the hospitable facilities afforded on every hand, I have learned much of your great institutions of learning, universities, colleges, gymnasiunis, schools of art, schools of music and of applied Science, and standing in the fresh morning of your national life, I have gazed upon these monuments of your intellectual progress and industry with wonder and amazernent and also with gratitude: but when I come to study that system of education, which is in a way, peculiar to your country, and which brings the school and the schools master to all people, to the children of the humblest and the lowest on equal terms with the children of the wealthy and the proud, my admiration and my wonder yield to a sense of appreciation that I may cal devout and religious. For, although I and iny people in the narrow view of a mere sectarian, inay be esteemed ignorant, superstitious and idolatrous we, the people of India, especially those who have been permitted to pass through the curriculum of educarion, hold to the doctrine that at the bottom of all progress and answerable for all happiness is universal education. Also, that this education must be free, also, that it must be necessary, that is, that it must include those lessons that pertain to physical life, its relations and perfections, as well as to the cultivation of the intellectual faculties and the mora
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