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lesson of the present financial crisis that the towns are far too full and 



»the country is far too empty. This must, T think, be the result in the 

 near future of the continuance of our present educational policy — to 

 flood the country with lawyers, clerks, salesmen, intermediai-ies of 

 every description all educated on indefinite academic lines just so far 

 as to give them a cHstaste for outdoor manual hibour, and reduce the 

 number of tliose who should be producers on the land. 



There is at jjresent in the Cape Colony only one agricultural 

 college, for admission to which I am told 180 applications have 

 recently been received. There is no training college oflering any 

 inducement to men to enter with a view to qualifying as teachers. 

 With one exception no church provides from the country its ministers 

 of religion. These are a few of many directions in which the need of 

 specialised education is clearly marked. Witliout expecting that 

 everything can be done at once in a country where the liberality of 

 wealthy men to educational schemes is indicated only by the exceptions, 

 it is not too much to hope for reform on the lines that I have en- 

 deavoured to indicate, and it is from such societies as the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of Science that the cause 

 of scientific education has to look for support. 



