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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 33: illiteracy in America. (search)
pool, Hamburg, and Hong-Kong, no doubt, but they are not enough to darken the tables of illiteracy very much. The German immigrants, as a rule, can read and write. The Mongol immigrants, as a rule, can read and write. I have never seen a male Chinese who could not read, and very few who could not write — in their own tongue. Out of sixty-three thousand Chinese reported in the census, six thousand are returned as illiterate, but in many towns, probably in most towns, illiteracy was taken by Chinese reported in the census, six thousand are returned as illiterate, but in many towns, probably in most towns, illiteracy was taken by the census marshals to mean inability to read and write English--a rule under which Victor Hugo and Father Secchi would be classed as illiterate. Of course the poorer class of Irish help to swell the list. Pat is the bad lot of American statists; for with all his mirth and fire-his poetry, his sentiment, and his humour-he has few of the mechanical advantages of education. He can only make his mark, and swell the black list of the marshal's returns. Yet a vast majority of the illiterates i
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 35: the situation. (search)
ore a stranger by birth, nearly one in three a stranger by blood. No other foreign country has so many strangers on her soil. Out of an aggregate approaching eight millions, who have come from all quarters of the globe into America, more than five millions have come from the British Islands and British America; nearly two millions and a half from Germany, including Prussia and Austria, but excluding Hungary and Poland. France and Sweden follow at a distance. Of the non-European nations, China has supplied the largest number; after her come the West Indies and Mexico. But the supplies of settlers from Asia, Africa, Australia, and America (excluding men of English race) do not amount to one man in every dozen men. Thus, the planting of America has been mainly done by persons sailing from English and German ports. Are these migrations from English and German ports likely to go forward on the same grand scale? No one dreams of such a thing. By many signs — some general and mat
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
hey held a territory covering three millions of square miles, and a population counting more than four hundred million souls. But what a change has taken place! China has been standing still, while England, Russia, and America have been conquering, planting, and annexing lands. Look at the group of powers which occupy areas of surface counting above a million square miles each:-- Great Britain 8,000,000 square miles224,000,000 souls. China3,000,000420,000,000 souls. Russia 7,000,00074,000,000 souls. Unites States3,000,00040,000,000 souls. The British Empire has a larger territory than Russia, a population second only to that of China. AmericaChina. America is treading in the footsteps of her parent, taking up her own, as a loadstone takes up its own. The greater draws, annexes, and absorbs the less. Some months ago, Lord Dufferin, Governor-General of Canada, annexed the whole region, known and unknown, stretching from the recognised frontier of British America towards the North Pol
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