CHAPTER I.
EDUCATIONAL TENDENCIES.
I was born in a retired but pleasant part of New England, as New England was half a century ago, and as, in many places, despite of its canals, steamboats, railroads, and electromagnetic telegraphs, it still is. Hence I am entitled to the honor of being, in the most emphatic sense, a native of the land of "steady habits."
The people with whom I passed my early years, though comparatively rude and...
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