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TABLE B.

Statement of liabilities of the United States for educational purposes, as per treaty stipulations; vide report of Indian affairs, 1869.

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a, b, e, g, interest on trust funds.

c, d, estimate made for teachers' salaries, at $1,000; balance for repairs.

f, estimated from mixed appropriation.

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NOTE.-It will be seen that 42 tribes and bands in the above tables are without any provision for school purposes.

KINDERGARTEN CULTURE.

In undertaking to initiate a national system of education, and especially in a nation that, for the first time in the ages, embodies in its constitution provision for the development of will, heart, and thought in every man, in such harmonious play that he shall be free to do the will of God on earth, as it is done in heaven-which is at once our daily prayer and the ideal of human society-we must not stop with providing the material conditions, but consider the quality of the education to be given.

The history of many great nations shows that there may be an education which paralyzes and perverts instead of developing and perfecting individual and national life. It is not from want of a most careful and powerful system of education that China is what she is. And India, Egypt, Greece, and Rome had their systems of education, efficient for the production of material and intellectual glories, certainly, but which, nevertheless, involved the principles of the decay and ruin of those nations. Even the education of Christian Europe, that, with all its acknowledged defects of method and scope, has made all the glory of modern civilization, has failed to bring out the general results that are to be hoped for, if we are to believe in the higher prophetic instincts of the sages and saints of past ages, to say nothing of the promises of Christ, who expressly includes the life that now is with that which is to come. At our own present historical crisis, when it is the purpose to diffuse throughout the United States

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