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first establishing modern universities
are England and Germany. Who has
not heard of Oxford Cambridge
Heidelburg, Marlborough and Dublin
and on this side Harvard Yale, Prince
ton and many others. but the greatest
educator of them all is, to my mind,
the Iree schools of America. To these
are invited the children of all nations
This institution knows no caste, no
creed, where every child is a peer, and
with the greatest press that ever
adorned the civilization of any country
it would seem that the educationa
facilities of this country could not be
improved.
But before I proceed too far in my
praise of American education and edu-
cational institutions, let me say that
the greatest heritage ever given to a
colony by mother country is the Eng
lish language, that grandest birthright
ever inherited by a child is the English
language from an educat tional stand
point. 1t is the synonym for intelli-
gence and an exponent of good govern
ment. Go where you will, where the
English language is the national Ian
type of civilization as well as advanced
education, and as Lord Tennyson has
said. it will be the universal tongue
Sin the federation of man. in the par
lament of the world" 1t will per-
meate the petrited civilizations of the
East and melt the bonds of ignorance
which have held all Asia in a deep
lethargy for centuries
Observe the great advantage derived
by being American born and endowed
with the English tongue, we have the
benefits of the garnered literature of
England for more than 10 centuries.
We point with pride to Shakespeare,
who looked from earth to heaven and
from heaven to earth and reflected that
glance in his immortal writings, he saw
it all and transcribed 1t. Who could be
deprived of the poetical muse of By
ron, of the sanctity of Milton. of the
language of Macaulay, of the phil
osophy of Bacon. of the wisdom of
Blackstone, of the eoquence of Burke
and still claim to be scholar?
1t is true that Italy has been charmed
by the vivid imagination of Virgil, the
good nature of Petrarch and the melan-
choly of Dante: Germany has been de-
lighted by the drama Of Goethe and the
poetry of Schiller: France has had her
sVoltaire, Hugo and Richelieu, but the
whole galaxy of foreign writers does
not form a constellation to COM
pare with the English group supple
mented by Longfellow, Whittier, Bry
ant and Emerson.
An orator once Sdlu tildl we 1fluSt
educate or we must perish" That is
true and unless we educate when we
perish all perishes with us. To illus
trate, we need only turn to the period
when our savage ancestors held riotous
dominion over all Northern Europe,
where the only trace left of their bar
harous sway is in their vandalism and
spoliation of the most noble work OF
man. Where Alaric and Attila piled
the collected art of the world in one
vast funeral pile at Rome and all the
grandeur of the great Roman empire
perished in the flames, with the en-
pire itself. We can also point to the
time when the British Druids per-
formed their mystic rites on the rocky
shores of Albion, to the time when
Henry Beauclerc gave and John Lack
land was forced to surrender the great
charter.
Broken are the circles and cromlechs
of the ancient Druids, and somewhat
broken is the history of Beauclerc and
Lakeland, but in their stead is the pos
terity which is the ancestry of the
greatest civilization that the world has
ever known. 1t is the civilization of
free schools and a free press. 1t is a
civilization that will hold orderly sway
over all the world, civilization where
arbitration will settle the destinies of
nations and not the sword.
Struggle as they will, the great
standing armies must go and brutality
must give way to higher education of
the Anglo-SaXon races. Go to the
sandy wastes of Egypt, to the silent
yelled in mystery the entire history of