. The earth and its inhabitants .. . still far from embracing nil the youth of the country. About three-fouribs of the schools and teachers belong to the State system of education. But tbe financial disasters which have occurred since 1890 have involved tbe closing of numerous establishments, and in several provinces the teachers have been discharged by the dozen.* The rate of attendance has been proportionately reduced from one- * In Auffixst, ] 894, as many as 330 public schools in every part of the Republic had to be closed for want of funds to maintain them.

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