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that it has been my privilege to examine, to learn and to witness the effects of this system of education which, you call free, "common” and which is so popular with you.
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The third impression to which I must refer concerns the vastness of your material resources and the iuquinerable institutions of industry, together with the greatness of your home or interstate commerce. From this point of view, the material side of you civilization is almost beyond grasp. The difficulty of appreciating this view of your great country is not small to one who comes from a country of quieter activities and more contemplative methods, and the first thought is that your civilization's first achieve. ment is the multiplication of wants and necessities, of cravings and luxuries and of material means to questionable ends. This may be a superficial view to be set aside and substituted by a better, upon a better acquaintance. It would also seem impossible from the same point of view, to understand how the physical, the moral and the intellectual sides of civilization can keep pace with the activities, the demands and the luxuries of the material. This problem, however, belongs to you, and only time can solve it. But whether or not the essential equilibrium is now realized, or may ever be, it remains true that your industrial progress on all lines of materiality in the arts also, and in certain sciences, and in inventions and other things which go to aid the energy and labor of
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