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seeming stranger, and, whether he answer with the lips of a 

 Greek, a German, or an (East) Indian, we recognize him as 

 one of ourselves. There was a time when the ancestors of 

 the Celts, the Germans, the Slavonians, the Greeks and Italians, 

 the Persians and Hindus, were living together beneath the 

 same roof." 



Why has the southern x\ryan civilization developed but one 

 school for every five villages, while the northern Aryan, save 

 in Russia, opens to every child the door of the school which 

 leads on, for those who will, to the college and university? 

 Why? Because only a prosperous nation can afford the trained 

 intelligence or education of its people. 



Edu(cation in America is not the cause but the product of 

 our prosperity ; and, thus far, the prosperity of this nation is 

 due to our conquest of the former inhabitants, and the unin- 

 habited wilds, and to the consequent acquisition of the great 

 natural resources of this country, including primarily vast areas 

 of rich virgin soil ; and secondarily immense supplies of timber 

 and coal. 



American prosperity has done more than educate Ameri- 

 cans ; it has educated western Europe, first of all by relieving 

 the over-crowded condition of those impoverished lands, and 

 subsequently by making large direct contributions to European 

 prosperity, in supplying cheap food and fertilizer and a good 

 market for European products, manufactured in large part from 

 the low-priced raw materials secured from this and other new 

 countries. 



Applied science has already made some contributions to 

 American education and civilization, and so far as its use in 

 the school room is concerned, applied science, as an educative 

 agency, is not exceeded in value by any other instrumentality. 

 Its very general acceptance by teachers and students in our 

 leading educational institutions does not prove its value, but 

 does prove that its value is being appreciated ; and I need 

 not remind you that pure science is the foundation of applied 

 science. 



While education has not been in any sense the prime cause 



