Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on a Developing School and School Shops, 1877
We boast of our liberal institutions, and our admirable form of government; nay, more, of our intelligence. It is admitted that we have done much for the cause of learning; but who cannot perceive how much remains to be done before we can justly lay claim to that noble, refined and practical excellence which ought to adorn a great, a pros perons and free people? We must strike out new paths. We must advance with the world. How many men know anything at all of the materials with which they work?
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