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ant branches of education, nothing more than the 

 rudiments of science and art teaching can be 

 introduced into elementary schools, we must seek 

 elsewhere for a supplementary training in these 

 subjects, and, if need be, in foreign languages, 

 which may go on after the workman's life has 

 begun. 



The means of acquiring the scientific and 

 artistic part of this training already exists in full 

 working order, in the first place, in the classes of 

 the Science and Art Department, which are, for 

 the most part, held in the evening, so as to be 

 accessible to all who choose to avail themselves of 

 them after working hours. The great advantage 

 of these classes is that they bring the means of 

 instruction to the doors of the factories and work- 

 shops ; that they are no artificial creations, but by 

 their very existence prove the desire of the people 

 for them ; and finally, that they admit of indefinite 

 development in proportion as they are wanted. I 

 have often expressed the opinion, and I repeat it 

 here, that, during the eighteen years they 

 have been in existence these classes have done 

 incalculable good ; and I can say, of my own know- 

 ledge, that the Department spares no pains and 

 trouble in trying to increase their usefulness and 

 ensure the soundness of their work. 



No one knows better than my friend Colonel 

 Donnelly, to whose clear views and great adminis- 

 trative abilities so much of the successful working 



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