CHAPTER XXV.

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_AMERICA._

An Old Civilization in a New Country. -- Old Methods in a New System of Schools. -- Sordid Views of Education. -- The highest Aim Money-getting. -- Herbert Spencer on the English Schools. -- Same Defects in the American Schools. -- Maxims of Selfishness. -- The Cultivation of Avarice. -- Political Incongruities. -- Negroes escaping from Slavery called Fugitives from Justice. -- The Results of Subjective Educational Processes. -- Climatic Influences alone saved America from becoming a Slave Empire. -- Illiteracy. -- Abnormal Growth of Cities. -- Failure of Justice. -- Defects of Education shown in Reckless and Corrupt Legislation. -- Waste of an Empire of Public Land. -- Henry D. Lloyd’s History of Congressional Land Grants. -- The Growth and Power of Corporations. -- The Origin of large Fortunes, Speculations. -- Old Social Forces producing old Social Evils. -- Still America is the Hope of the World. -- The Right of Suffrage in the United States justifies the Sentiment of Patriotism. -- Let Suffrage be made Intelligent and Virtuous, and all Social Evils will yield to it; and all the Wealth of the Country is subject to the Draft of the Ballot for Education. -- The Hope of Social Reform depends upon a complete Educational Revolution. 307