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ministry, but at the same time met with so much 

 opposition from those who wished Brazil to con- 

 tinue dependent on Portugal, as a colony, that the 

 whole plan was given up ; and yet nothing but the 

 establishment of a university can rouse the slum- 

 bering energies of the country, and thus Brazil, 

 in laudable emulation with the mother country, be 

 one day elevated to the rank of a great kingdom. 

 Till this shall be done, the Brazilians will be com- 

 pelled, however expensive and troublesome it may 

 be to them, to complete their education beyond 

 the ocean, at the Portuguese university of 

 Coimbra. This necessity, however, was attended 

 with various advantages to the young students ; 

 especially by giving them an opportunity of making 

 themselves acquainted with the great institutions 

 in Europe, to bring back to their own country the 

 knowledge to be obtained in them, and in general 

 to acquire the universality of European education. 

 If, however, at some future time, a university 

 should be founded in Brazil, it would be necessary 

 in the present state of literature, to have the first' 

 professors from Europe. 



Another new institution, the Academy of Arts, 

 is chiefly indebted for its existence to the late 

 minister Araujo, Conde da Barca, who received 

 almost the whole of his education in foreign coun- 

 tries. While Europe saw in the foundation of such 

 an institution an apparently irrefragable proof of 

 the rapid progress of the new state, it is evident 



