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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE COMMISSION OF 1858 AND THE REVISED CODE. The Commission of Inquiry which began its sittings in 1858 was the direct result of a motion which Sir John Pakington had succeeded in carrying. But other reasons had pointed to the necessity of such an inquiry. For a quarter of a century the State had set apart a certain sum of money annually for the encouragement of education. For nearly twenty years the duty of the State in the matter had received further recognition by the administration being entrusted to a special department. But opinion was still unsettled as to the lines upon which further operations ought to move; there was nothing but vague surmise as to the real work which had been accomplished. Certain facts, indeed, had been fairly well established. On the whole it was admitted that the action of the State had been beneficial, and only a small minority still maintained their attitude of uncompromising opposition to any interference on the part of the Government in a work which had hitherto depended upon voluntary effort. It was also matter of common agreement that there were wide gaps in the work and that the results would not bear the test of any very rigid examination. And lastly, it was generally seen that the existing system was not capable of extension so as to meet the real wants of the case; that it was at the best only tentative; and that before it became equal to the development of a real national system it must undergo very considerable changes and modifications, not as regards its extent and operations only, but also in the general principles upon which it was based. The first work, then, which lay before the Commission was to inquire into the results of the system so far. The tentative efforts?which even those who first instituted them rec...
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