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hunting trails and the war path with the American Indian... I would be pleased to tell them what I thought about the subject under discussion.... I then requested the Duke of Argyle to repeat the substance of his argument. The Duke was a man of great learning and force of character, but he was opposed to the education of the common people. He said they were born in a certain station of life and that it was impossible, except in rare instances, to ever get out of it. To educate such persons was only to make them miserable and unhappy. I replied:

"Now, Mr. Argyle, that will not do at all. Such a theory if applied in this age of the world in England would be the ruin of every man here. The economists say that one American is equal to one and a half Englishman, two Germans or three Frenchmen in the production of wealth. Why? Because the American workman is educated in the common schools and free universities. If your theory is applied in England, we will take your trade away. We have already taken away the profits of your agriculture and your agricultural land is being turned into hunting parks and sheep pastures, for the skilled American farmer with his machines, which are the result of free education, can produce the cereals, beef, and pork cheaper than you can. We, with our educated workmen also take away your manufacturing trade, while the sodden mass of brute ignorance in England, mainly composed of men not over five feet high, because starvation in