Note 176 — Chapter XXIV
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The model of these institutions came to us from foreign countries; but the foreign differ from ours materially, because of the diversity of their origin. With our neighbors, the movement began slowly in the lowest levels of the rural population. With us, on the contrary, the system of agricultural associations began at the top. Thus, these institutions penetrate only with difficulty into the rural districts, where economic education has but just begun.