Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Maryland School Journal, Vol. 5: October, 1878 Alexandrine period of lexical and philological activity. In all the manifestations of the human mind this law prevails. And by a natural extension and application of this principle we discover that the true conception of education, as a means of moral-and intellectual perfection, is in danger of Obsolescence among American educationists in'the closing decades of the XIX century, when the critical faculties are so intensely developed as to have brought us to the threshold, if not into the 'very heart of a new Augustan age. When we contemplate the immense expenditures that are annually made for the sup port Of public instruction, the constant expansion as well as the perfected appliances of our common school system, some may be tempted to exclaim These bc brave-words, and were better left unsaid.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.