By leaving the States free to experiment in their local affairs, we can judge of the working of different laws under varying circumstances, and thus learn their comparative merits.

The progress education has achieved in America is due to the fact that we have left our system of public instruction in the hands of local authorities.

How different would be the solution of the great educational question of manual labor in the schools, if the matter had to be settled at Washington! "The whole nation might find itself pledged to a scheme that a few years would prove wholly impracticable.

Not only is the town meeting, as Emerson says, 'the cradle of American liberties,' but it is the nursery of Yankee experiment and wisdom.

England, with its clumsy national code of education, making one inflexible standard of scholarship for the bright children of the manufacturing districts and the dull brains of the agricultural counties, should teach us a lesson as to the wisdom of keeping apart state and national government.
"Before we can decide the just grounds for divorce, we must get a clear idea of what constitutes marriage.