The Americo-Liberians 



the republic, and have published their studies. The Liberia 

 College has existed since 1862. It has taught a great deal 

 of useless Greek and Latin, Miltonian and Shakespearian 

 English to its pupils. It has not conveyed one particle of 

 instruction in the languages of Africa, notably those which are 

 spoken in Liberia itself. Yet the various dialects of the 



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Mandingo tongue were well worth attention, and in studying 

 the evolution of African ideas minute examination should have 

 been made of the Kru group of languages. Has anything been 

 done for African botany ? — No. African zoology? — No. A 

 little tropical American agriculture has been taught ; there has 

 been no society founded for the study of indigenous cultivable 

 plants ; there has been no attempt made to domesticate in- 



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