Note 87 — Chapter XXIV · EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM—HISTORIC. EUROPE.
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“The progress of the enormous debts which at present oppress, and will in the long run probably ruin, all the great Nations of Europe, has been pretty uniform.”—“Wealth of Nations,” Vol. III., p. 392. By Adam Smith, LL.D., F.R.S. Edinburgh, 1819.