Excerpt from State Control of Instruction: A Study of Centralization in Public Education Though puritanism was the consummate flower of English intellect,2 it must be remembered that the emigrants shared the prevailing opinions, prejudices, and modes of thinking of the English at that day.3 They came to reproduce, as far as circum stances would permit, their English life. They recognized class distinctions and first set about erecting colleges for the training of the aristocracy for the Church and the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.