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"Well, you're saying it yourself! What's wanted to prevent her

taking her child to the hen-roost to cure it of screaood-humoredly

"Oh, no!" said Levin with annoyance; "thatthe people with schools

The people are poor and ignorant--that we see as surely as the

peasant woman sees the baby is ill because it screanorance is to be cured by

schools is as inco What has to be cured is what reement with Spencer, whom

you dislike so much He says, too, that education reater prosperity and co, as he says, but not of being able to read and write"

"Well, then, I'ree while

Schools can do no good; ill do good is an econoanization in which the people will become richer, will have

more leisure--and then there will be schools"

"Still, all over Europe now schools are obligatory"

"And how far do you agree with Spencer yourself about it?" asked

Levin

But there was a glea: "No; that screa story is positively capital! Did you really

hear it yourself?"

Levin saw that he was not to discover the connection between this