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But is it not impossible simply to compare literature coming from so obviously different environments, unless we first adopt certain canons, obtained by a careful analysis of style and effects ? Instead of that, Sainte- Beuve's and Scherer's dicta are imported, much as certain theologians, a generation ago, used to go to Berlin and Tubingen to pick up theological novelties. In 1859 Matthew Arnold was deputed by the Board of Education to examine into and report on the condition of Education in F...rance. He visited the Toulouse Lyceum and a private school at Soreze, run by Lacordaire, whom he describes as a religious genius. With a pass from Michelet, he saw the inside of several schools in Paris, neglecting not even the pensions for boys, like ' Bonaparte ' and ' Charle- magne, ' or even the Jesuit School of Vaugirard. Without attempting to recount the impressions made on him, or the suggestions he had to offer the English authorities, in detail, we might say that the burden of his report was the superiority and cheap- ness of the State-controlled system of France.
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