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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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The
progress
of
a
people
can
best
be
judged
by
those
things
which
they
accept
as
matters-of-fact.
It
was
amazing
to
me,
coming
from
the
city,
and
before
I
understood,
to
see
how
ingrained
had
become
some
of
the
principles
which
only
a
few
years
ago
were
fiercely-mooted
problems.
It
gave
me
a
new
pride
in
my
country,
a
new
appreciation
of
the
steps
in
civilisation
which
we
have
already
permanently
gained.
Not
a
question
have
I
ever
heard
in
any
school
meeting
of
the
necessity
of
educating
every
American
child--at
any
cost.
Think
of
it!
Think
how
far
we
have
come
in
that
respect,
in
seventy--yes,
fifty--years.
Universal
education
has
become
a
settled
axiom
of
our
life.
And
there
was
another
point--so
common
now
that
we
do
not
appreciate
the
significance
of
it.
I
refer
to
majority
rule.
In
our
school
meeting
we
were
voting
money
out
of
men's
pockets--money
that
we
all
needed
for
private
expenses--and
yet
the
moment
the
minority,
after
full
and
honest
discussion,
failed
to
maintain
its
contention
in
opposition
to
the
new
building,
it
yielded
with
perfect
good
humour
and
went
on
with
the
discussion
of
other
questions.
When
you
come
to
think
of
it,
in
the
light
of
history,
is
not
that
a
wonderful
thing?
One
of
the
chief
property
owners
in
our
neighbourhood
is
a
rather
crabbed
old
bachelor.
Having
no
children
and
heavy
taxes
to
pay,
he
looks
with
jaundiced
eye
on
additions
to
schoolhouses.
He
will
object
and
growl
and
growl
and
object,
and
yet
pin
him
down
as
I
have
seen
the
Scotch
Preacher
pin
him
more
than
once,
he
will
admit
that
children
("of
course,"
he
will
say,
"certainly,
of
course")
must
be
educated.
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