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IN celebrating as we are now doing the fifty-first annual meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Institutes, one's thoughts naturally revert to the foundation of that Union and to the educational progress which our country has made since the earlier years of the century; and round these thoughts will gravitate recollections of the life and labours of your revered President, Sir Edward Baines, for in him we have a living picture of the history of the educational progress of the century. Truly, he has been a witness, and an active witness, of English educational reform from his earliest years, nor have his efforts in the great cause from that time forward ever ceased. Was he not even as a boy in Leeds so long ago as 1809 an earnest listener to the expositions of one who may be justly regarded as the founder of our present system of national education, I mean Joseph Lancaster? The name of Baines. again, is intimately connected with those of Birkbeck and Brougham in the great work of founding mechanics' institutes.
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Technical Instruction 1 . Nature 38, 186–188 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038186c0
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