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our civilization, and it is our purpose also, to extend the work of education with all of our abilities with or without governmental aid, on that principle which is found in your Christian Scriptures, that "a little leaven, lea veneth the whole lump." Time 'must elapse before we sball realize the great consummation, but patience and persevera nce, with the encouragement of all enlightened people, and espacially of you, the überal Americans, will eventually triumph. What I have learned of your great system of education of the masses, which I adinit cannot be very great or particular for the reason that my observations have been necessarily limited, is to me an encouragement beyond words to express, if my impressions are just and true.
If my understanding of your institutions and your form of government is correct, and if I might be permitted to express an opinion, I would say that that education which is now offered to the people free to be accepted or rejected, inust soon become compulsory, as a measure of preservation of those very institutions. Of the different systems adopted by you, I may not speak with certainty, but the impressions which I have received concerning these methods, from the kindergarten to the university, are both pleasing and profitable in my thought. What lessons we, the people of India, may be able to receive from deeper acquaintance with you and your institutions, I may not even attempt to express or enumerate. I CAO only speak of the gratitude which I feel in the fact
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