J. L. Spalding

Bishop of Peoria

The business of education is not, as I think, to perfect the learner in any of the sciences, but to give his mind that freedom and disposition, and those habits, which may enable him to attain every part of knowledge himself.—Locke

SIXTH EDITION

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1900

Copyright,

By A. C. McClurg and Co.,

A. D. 1890.

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