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Home and School in 19th Century America: Some Personal-History Reports from the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Geraldine Jonçich Clifford
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford*
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The things to which we give abstract names, liberty, justice, truth, actually are incapable of yielding up their essence, to be bottled, labeled, scrutinised. The qualities dwell in a thousand concrete things, in the accidents and transiencies of day-to-day living….

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 3 - 34
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Copyright © 1977 by New York University 

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