61.
(In this study, the accounts are otherwise made up.

Certain expenses being provided for by annuities are carried into the annual expenditure:) "From June 1, 1878, to Dec.

31, 1887, expenses of first installation, 528 millions; ordinary expenses in 1887, 173 millions."] [Footnote 6393: Law of June 16, 1881 (on gratuitous education).] [Footnote 6394: Law of March 28, 1882 (on obligatory education).] [Footnote 6395: National temperament must here be taken into consideration as well as social outlets.

Instruction out of proportion with and superior to condition works differently with different nations.
For the German adult it is rather soothing and a derivative; with the adult Frenchman it is especially an irritant or even an explosive.] [Footnote 6396: It might be interesting to note what Mark Twain wrote on India education about the same period when Taine wrote this text: "apparently, then, the colleges of India were doing what our high schools have long been doing--richly over-supplying the market for highly educated service; and thereby doing a damage to the scholar, and through him to the country.

At home I once made a speech deploring the injuries inflicted by the High School in making handicrafts distasteful to boys who would have been willing to make a living at trades and agriculture if they had but had the good luck to stop with the common school.