It was the establishment of a pure democracy that forced the experiment of universal free instruction in this country.

It has met with opposition at every stage, and there is to-day a Mr.Worldly Wiseman at every corner bewailing the evils it has wrought.

He must, too, be a hopeless Candide who can look on our experiment, wonderful and inspiring as it is, and say its results have been the best possible.
It was entirely logical, things beings as they were, that there should have been strong opposition to giving girls the same training in schools as boys.

That objection holds good to-day in many reflective minds.

He again must be a hopeless optimist who believes that we have worked out the best possible system of education for women.