Excerpt from World Education: A Discussion of the Favorable Conditions for a World Campaign for Education

The nineteenth century made important additions to the sum of knowledge. It gave birth to new sciences. Vast accumulations of data were gathered, the relative prominence of departments of knowledge was modified, and there were remarkable movements in every area of action. But a survey of the century will probably show that its preeminent feature was its diffusive energy. This was favorable to the spread of knowledge and the general advantages of civilization.

Personal liberty during this period was marvellously advanced. Serfdom fell in France in the revolution of 1789, in Germany in the first half of the century, in Russia in 1861, in Poland in 1864. The foreign slave trade was abolished by Austria in 1782, United States and Great Britian in 1807, Spain in 1817 and Brazil in 1826.

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