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Excerpt from Principles of Government, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Meditations in Exile IN 8. Great empire, such as France or Great Britain, it is desirable that there should be a Minister of Public Instruction, specially charged with the super intendence of all educational affairs, in regard of which the intervention of the state is needed but in small communities it is not advantageous to create a machinery more cumbrous or complex than the neces sity of the case requires. We may, therefore, assign to the department of the Interior the superintendcnce of public instruction, as a branch of administration which naturally belongs to that department. 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.