... it is not from any want of the means of acquiring instruction of every description. Schools are muck more plentiful than blackberries all over the land; they meet us at every corner; instruction in every department, from the alphabet up to the orbit of ...

... education' : Sir James Stephen has detected the blindness of the land. To his insight Humes and Gibbons are now as plentiful as blackberries. Any day, he will produce you score or two of ingenious youths, British-born, hitherto mote and inglorious, whom he will ...