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HISTORY OF NOVA SCOTIA.
North-West, stretching out her long arm acros$
the wide continent, and dangling her rich bribe®
before covetous eyes, began to entice away the sonf
and daughters of Acadia, ever eager for some better
thing, But this lure, too, will have its day and
ceaso to be. Nova Scotia is coming to her own
She too has treasures, less patent and conspicuouß
it may be, but no less real and enduring. The
Awakening time is dawning,
Building on Old Foundations.— As regards the
doings of the present generation in Nova Scotia iD
its relations with the outside world, the historian
will have less to tell, than of an awakening and
a Closer attention to its own internal affair®
Again, of this inner awakening, he will note les
of new fields of working and new lines of industry):
Shan of new ways of working the old fields, and 0!
a widening and a deepening of old activities, makinf
them more strenuous and effective.
Education.— The development of @ country”
Sconomic resources is largely dependent on th®
Forcefulness of its mental and moral stamina. 'The
public school system of Nova Scotia, as established
over half a century ago, comprises all the element®
needed to secure to its people a many-sided intelli-
gence, Its unfolding may have been slow, but it®
progress has been unbroken, and present condition®
point ‚to still better things for the future, Th®
common schools of eight grades comprise an eigb*
years’ course free to all; and the high school$,
8qually free, have a three or four years’ course, 9
may be demanded, carrying their students forward
b0 & state of pregar; tion for entrance on a universit)
pareer. Thep “rc “-Nepcs :“ the province are fully