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OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. 



The educational system of this State is perfected by the experience of 

 all nations. Colleges and schools are sjiringing up all over the State, 

 having teachers of the highest order. In the pi'ofessions ai'e found 

 graduates from all the notable universities and schools in the Eastern 

 States and Europe. In our workshops are found the most skilful 

 mechanics known. California contains in her population the highest 

 order of education, talent, refinement, and as liigh a civilization as is 

 found elsewhere. As, centuries ago, the first spark of art, science, and 

 civilization sprang from Asia, the first abode of man, and travelling the 

 rising sun westward, accumulating, in its slow progress through the dark 

 ages, more light and briilianc}-, adding in continental Europe still a 

 higher degree of perfection in learning and civilization ; still seeking the 

 setting sun, this increased knowledge, transported b}' the Mayflower to 

 the western continent, at last, after two thousand years of progress, 

 sought the shores of the Pacific, California, perfected in all its parts, ancl 

 to day we can send inissiorTai'ies to the orient, more skilled in arts, 

 sciences, and learning, than those of any other nation. 



