Note 92 — Chapter XXV · EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM—HISTORIC. AMERICA.
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“Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people’s reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it.... The township institutions of New England form a complete and regular whole; they are old; they have the support of the laws, and the still stronger support of the manners of the community, over which they exercise a prodigious influence.”—“Democracy in America,” Vol. I., p. 76. By Alexis De Tocqueville. Boston: John Allyn, 1876.