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iv that it is training, discipline, the efficacious art of instruction, which disinter the soul and fetch out its inherent beauties, regardless of the body which envelops it; that the education of an American citizen, to be worthy of the time, ought to include, in its wide compass, some knowledge of the true foundations upon which rests constitutional liberty.

Public instruction touching the principle of equality of rights by Due Process of Law, the significance of which ever demands to be anew inquired into and anew made manifest, is the great subsidiary purpose of the Brotherhood. The work admonishes those statesmen and jurists whose bent of mind is dogmatic rather than philosophic, that, instead of cultivating the growth of noxious herbs, they must be uprooted; that only when they begin to wither will nobler plants shoot up in their place. The author has ventured to suggest, that, unless the American tree of Jurisprudence be too matured to receive the scion engrafted by the Fourteenth Amendment, all its branches, if there be any affinity between the graft and the stock, will shortly bring forth noble fruit. He has also reminded their rulers that, as the American people stand upon the summit of a structure in the evolution of which centuries have been employed, they should be the possessors of the political wealth of all ages.

The foreign jurist, in the course of his inquiry concerning the limitations of the amendments, explores and exposes all the hidden recesses of the race-question. The intellectual acumen and the philosophic discrimination of the calm seeker after truth are nowhere displayed to so great advantage as in the following deductions and conclusions:

That every race owes something to the race beneath it; that the principle of equality of right, so congenial to the atmosphere of the Constitution, opens an ample highway for universal progress; that the educational advantages, since the readjustment of American society, which have wrought such a wondrous improvement in the colored man within twenty-five years, are the heralds of an incoming era in which the race-problem will be solved in a way not inconsistent with a republican form of government; that should fomenters of a war of races hereafter appear, and should they pour forth their blood to disenfranchise