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the twentieth century we began to reap substantial fruit from the seed sown in the century before. We had now, for example, the effects of the great education measure; for early in the twentieth century the last of the uneducated masses of the old society had died out. We have now, therefore, to see how universal education comported itself. No doubt the evil as well as the good tendencies of human nature still remained to society; but the field for the former was gradually narrowed, while that for the other was proportionately enlarged, by the ameliorated conditions of all life and business work. But before selecting some few of the prominent illustrative instances of the century, let me give a striking episode of its commencement, which, however, I am happily able to describe as only

A Canadian Fisheries Question is once more upon us. The "Dominion" had by this time consolidated