. The earth and its inhabitants .. . employed in Prussian schools would fail to procure appointments in other states of Germany in which education has fared better. Even as respects the mere knowledge of reading and writing, Wiirttemberg, Saxony, and other states of Central and Southern Germany are ahead of Prussia, but in the intensely Catholic districts of Upper Bavaria ignorance is still rampant.* At the same time the * Xumber of recruits unable to read and write (1876-77) :—Posen, 12 93 per cent. ; Prussia proper, 8-66 per cent.; Alsace-Lorraine, 3-98 per cent.; Silesia, 2-45 per cent.; Po

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . employed in Prussian schools would fail to procure appointments in other states of Germany in which education has fared better. Even as respects the mere knowledge of reading and writing, Wiirttemberg, Saxony, and other states of Central and Southern Germany are ahead of Prussia, but in the intensely Catholic districts of Upper Bavaria ignorance is still rampant.* At the same time the * Xumber of recruits unable to read and write (1876-77) :—Posen, 12 93 per cent. ; Prussia proper, 8-66 per cent.; Alsace-Lorraine, 3-98 per cent.; Silesia, 2-45 per cent.; Pomerania, 119 per cent.; Bavaria, 0-93 per cent. ; Brandenburg, 0-67 per cent. ; Thuringia, 0-34 per cent. ; Eoyal Saxony, 0-25 per rent ; Baden, 0-16 per cent. ; Hesse, 0-11 per cent. ; Wiirttemberg, 0-03 per cent.

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