Nearly a generation had been strangely neglected to grow up un-Americanized, and the private adventurer and the locomotive were the untechnical missionaries to open a way for the com mon school.
This was almost a genera tion after that region had become American terri tory.  Nearly a generation had been strangely neglected to grow up un-Americanized, and the private adventurer and the locomotive were the untechnical missionaries to open a way for the com mon school.  Educational and Christian philanthropy in the United States has some eccentricities, but they "lean to virtue's side."