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division of labour and production on a large 

 scale, but may not the extreme complexity of 

 modern commerce and the industrial system tend 

 to nullify the advantages it possesses ? Nor 

 would it appear that what one may be allowed 

 to call the " food of the soul " is the product of 

 material wealth. I am conscious that in touch- 

 ing on the question of education I may be ven- 

 turing out of my depth, but I cannot help won- 

 dering if our modern system, as practised on the 

 prairie and elsewhere, is producing a really finer 

 type of men and women than, say, the old Scotch 

 system, to which surely Canada owes so much. 

 If the prairie-folk are wise they will surely see 

 to it that, however laborious and strenuous 

 the spring and summer may be, the cold 

 days and long evenings of winter will be fraught 

 with educational value to the younger genera- 

 tion at least. Libraries of good reading should 

 also be available at all schoolhouses. One does 

 not want to depreciate newspapers, giving news 

 of the outside world, but surely much of it is 

 <iphemeral and waste of time. 



During the last two decades enormous amoimts 

 of borrowed capital have poured into the Prairie 

 Provinces. From this and the labour of immi- 

 grants on the bountiful soil have sprung some 

 growing cities, many considerable towns, and 



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