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of the lives of the liberators, but also of the statesmen of the American 

 countries. 



But even this is not broad enough to effect the purpose which the Con- 

 gress had in mind. The history of each country is no doubt taught in 

 the schools thereof and the information recommended by this resolution 

 is no doubt imparted in so far as it concerns the liberators and statesmen 

 of the country in which the school is located. The hope of the partisans 

 of the resolution was that the history of the different American countries 

 be taught in the schools of every American country and that, in connec- 

 tion therewith, the lives and the achievements of the liberators and of 

 the statesmen of the different countries be availed of as far as the circum- 

 stances of the case permit, in order that the horizon might be broadened 

 and that there might be no intellectual frontiers in the Western Continent. 



ARTICLE 1 6. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress recommends 



that 



There be established in the universities of the United States chairs 

 of the history, development, and ideals of the Latin- American 

 peoples, and in the universities of Latin America chairs of 

 the history, development, and ideals of the people of the 

 United States. 



This important article may be considered in a general way as the con- 

 tinuation of Article 15, much in the same way as Article 17, concerning 

 the study of the Spanish and English languages, may be considered as the 

 necessary complement to the article under consideration. The intention 

 of the Congress was that the beginning of the knowledge of things 

 American should be made with the child, but that it was necessary to 

 provide greater and larger facilities for the young men and women of the 

 Americas. The details of the lives of liberators and statesmen are 

 attractive and serve to create an interest in foreign countries, but should 

 we stop there the recommendation would fail of its effect. The ideals 

 of the different American countries should become the common property 

 of the American Republics, and to do this the Congress felt that it was 

 highly desirable, indeed necessary, that chairs of the history and of the 

 development and of the ideals of the Latin American peoples should be 

 established in the United States, and that similar chairs should be estab- 

 lished in each of the Latin American countries to offer an intelligent 

 and adequate idea of the history, development, and ideals of the people of 

 the United States. It is gratifying to the people of the United States that 

 so much attention to these important subjects is already given in the 

 various American Republics, but it is a source of regret to the advocates 



