. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . hanthat thestate isdriven bya n u n a n -s werableargumentto makethe instruc-tion which it has pre-pared for all children,of whatsoever class orcondition, an obligationon their part. Whatshould be said of sucha provision in the cur-riculum of early life aswould, by compulsoryprocess at the publicexpense, prepare foodfor the stom
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . hanthat thestate isdriven bya n u n a n -s werableargumentto makethe instruc-tion which it has pre-pared for all children,of whatsoever class orcondition, an obligationon their part. Whatshould be said of sucha provision in the cur-riculum of early life aswould, by compulsoryprocess at the publicexpense, prepare foodfor the stomachs andclothing for the bodiesof children — of chil-dren for whom no otheradequate provision hadbeen made in these re-sjsects—and then at thesame time should notbe armed with a pre-rogative to the extentof seeing that the foodbe taken and the cloth-ing worn ? Since primary educa-tion is so great a fact inthe life and conditionof every civilized peo-ple — aye, since to solarge a degree it hasalways been so — wemay pause a momentto note one or two others of its undis-covered bourns. At what age should itbe begun? What is the Swiss usage? The rule varies from five to seven yearsin the different cantons, and the closingyear is fixed all the way from twelve. PEASANT GIRL OF PAYS PE VAUD—TYPE, to sixteen years of age. These limits,perhaps, may be made to cover the bestjudgment of modern times respecting THE S117SS.—nn UCA TION. 105 the ages at which the formal educationof children may be undertaken and atTheory of prima- which the primary disci-i:SSS^^ Pline maybe said to institutions. Somewhere about theselimits, undoubtedly, the truth is this rises the secondary educa-tion. In Switzerland all the cantons varsities, namely, those of Basel, Bern,Zurich, and Geneva. It has been noticedas a fact of j^eculiar interest in educa-tional differentiations that natural growthwill bring into existence a natural fit-ness of conditions. The statistics from1876 to
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