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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 34: America at school. (search)
ion, says Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior. The existence of a republic, unless all its citizens are educated, is an admitted impossibility, says General Eaton, Commissioner of Education. Congress passed a bill, establishing a Bureau of Education at Washington, for the purpose of collecting facts and letting the people know the truth. General Eaton was placed at the head of this Bureau, and for four years he had made an annual report; each year with safer data, each year also with a sharper note of warning. For the moment, he can do no more than publish facts. America is not yet prepared for a great and general act; and General Eaton hasGeneral Eaton has to leave his theory and his facts to speak. His theory is — that a republic cannot live unless the whole of her citizens are instructed men. His fact is — that in the United States, five million six hundred thousand persons are unable to read and write. More has been done by states and counties to arrest the downward moti