. 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 . 1 -lion. This last ag- gregate is made up,as the reader willalready have con-jectured, to a greatextent of silverwatches. The goldwatches are morelargely exported toGermany. Thewatch trade with theUnited States alsohas been very exten-sive until recentyears, when the im-provement in Amer-ican machinery andmethods has putthe Swis


. 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 . 1 -lion. This last ag- gregate is made up,as the reader willalready have con-jectured, to a greatextent of silverwatches. The goldwatches are morelargely exported toGermany. Thewatch trade with theUnited States alsohas been very exten-sive until recentyears, when the im-provement in Amer-ican machinery andmethods has putthe Swiss at trade with theUnited States is nowmore largely inleather and theproducts is interesting tonote the characterand extent of the ed-ucational system of the Swiss. As far as the primary edu-cation is concerned, it Essentials of Swiss system of must be, according to the education. , . c o , < ai • i. statute of 1874, suiTicient,obligatory, gratuitous, unsectarian, andunder public control. These criteriaconstitute, perhaps, as good a standard for the training of the youthful mind,whatever may be the ulterior object oflife, as may be found among any otherpeojjle. Civilized nations are still de-bating whether the compulsory feature. LACE-MAKER OF ST. GALL—TYPE. shall or .shall not be a part of the pri-mary education of mankind. But sincethe state has no right to deprive anyone of its children of an education, andsince on the other hand any child, underwhatsoever conditions born and reared,has a ris^ht to demand an education at 104 GREAT RACES OF MANKIXD. the liands of the state, it were difficultto see at what conclusion we may arriveother thanthat 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


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