Identifier: triumphswonderso01boyd (find matches)
Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r Idiots and Feeble-Minded was opened, and other States followed with equally generous provi-sion. Within recent years, special schools have been opened in connectionwith the school systems of large cities, so that children who need individualcare and watchfulness may receive more attention, than they could secure inthe graded class-room. All these tendencies are exceedingly hopeful, asindicative of societys recognition of her duty to those who cannot satisfac-torily care for themselves. Humanitarianism in education has been a power-ful and constant force during the whole of this century. It must not be forgotten that other agencies beside those established by EDUCATION DURING THE CENTURY 541 States have been contributing to education. The Sunday-school movement isone of the great efforts of the century, to help in training children by a vol-untary organization. In 1781, Robert Raikes employed some teachers forthe poor children of Gloucester, in order that their Sundays might be spent
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DR. E. BEN.T. ANDREWS, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, CHICAGO, ILL. quietly and with profit. Presently, as the number of Sunday-schools, in-creased, men and women proffered their services gratuitously. The teachingfollowed two general lines, secular (reading, writing, etc.) and religious. heformer was of help, especially to children who were employed during theweek From England, the movement came to the West. The AmericanSunday-school Union -as organized in 1824. and has ever smce^continuedto stimulate the establishment of more schools of this kind. In 1896, there 542 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY were 132,697 Sunday-schools in the United States and 9097 in Canada, witha total membership of 1U,288,153 and 721,435 respectively, while it has beencomputed that in the world the number of Sunday-schools was 246,058, withan enrollment of 24,919,313. In European states, they have been solving the same problems as in Amer-ica. The importance of education once admitted, the next probl

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