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ed exclusively to the art of manufacturing, dyeing and 

 finishing what are known as "Bradford goods." AtBatley, 

 at Glasgow, at Leeds, at Huddersfield, and at Manchester 

 there are alreaay fully equipped schools for technical in- 

 struction in particular arts. 



Now if such a beginning as is here proposed becomes 

 an actuality there will soon follow special trade schools in 

 all our manufacturing centres. It will not be many years 

 before Lowell, Lawrence and Manchester will have textile 

 schools. Holyoke will have its laboratory of paper mak- 

 ing, Connecticut will have its special schools in brass and 

 other fine metal working. In this way and in this way 

 only will New England be able to maintain her supremi- 

 cy in competition with other parts of our common country 

 which are more richly endowed by nature. "Is there any 

 reason wby the studv of the art in which a man is to em- 

 ploy his working life, and by which he is to sustain him- 

 self and others, should not be made use of to developebis 

 own mind ? Will he not take a greater interest in such a 

 study and develope his own capacity more fully than he 

 will in the study of something entirely foreign to this pur- 

 pose ? Is a study less fit as an intellectual exercise be- 

 cause it is useful in a material sense ?" 



