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TEACHING IN

THREE CONTINENTS:

Personal Notes

ON THE

Educational Systems of the World.

BY

W. CATTON GRASBY.

CALIF

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:

LONDON, PARIS AND Melbourne.

1891.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

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PREFACE.

THE observations and inquiries with which this book deals were made for the sake of the information, and not with any view of publication.

Last year, I found myself able to indulge a cherished wish to renew and extend my acquaintance with some of the chief countries of Europe, and to make an extended visit to America, to which continent the attention of Australians is being more and more directed.

The people of the United States are essentially AngloSaxon. The circumstances which have altered, developed, modified-in other words, made them Americans—have been similar to those influences which are giving distinctive characteristics to Australians. It is profitable for every Australian to study American history and institutions, if he would understand his country's destinies. English folk in new countries are untrue to their origin if they do not, untrammelled by traditions, with all the advantages of new, rich, and boundless fields of enterprise, progress faster than their relations in the Mother Land. An investigation proves

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