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politi il conditions. II may well be doub whether tl li d> determine the course of a people, Phey ma\ t, implements which break oul the roads: they may b the lamna hich li hi the course, bul they are the instruments more n » the ci ttors of civi nations. Civilizations and their institutan are the produi the Almighty Power working through t 1 uls of men. The scho lia? advanced with the growth of tin ;...• ..n and the pn of civilization, bul we may very w u qu ation i whether the . liools of our fathers did not better represent their civili iiion than our schools represent ours, if this -^

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