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was forbidden/'' they state, " to teach the liberal 

 sciences ; we were only permitted to learn the 

 Latin Grammar, the philosophy of the schools, 

 and civil and ecclesiastical jurisprudence. The 

 Viceroy, Don Joaquim Pino, gaye much offence 

 by permitting a nautical school at Buenos Ayres, 

 and in compliance with a mandate of the court, it 

 was shut ; while at the same time, it was strictly 

 prohibited to send our youth to Paris for the pur- 

 pose of studying the science of chemistry, in order 

 to teach it on their return."*' 



The change in this respect brought about by 

 the Revolution, is one of the most remarkable 

 circumstances which have attended that great 

 event. Schools have been established in all parts 

 of the country, where the actual presence of the 

 war has not rendered it impossible : and the thirst 

 for knowledge and instruction formerly described 

 as having no existence, has proved to be quite 

 universal. The following extract from a Mexican 

 newspaper, called El Sol, or the Sun, is interest- 

 ing, on more accounts than one : — 



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