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[he] would bring. And he would not wish to know that it is the duty of humanity to render aid unto those who have fallen into distress, and possess no remedy, and cannot raise themselves up of their own accord. 4. Through negligence, schools are spoiled and ruined from day to day; and the children of the nation are likewise deprived of civil education and other necessary studies, remaining savage and ignorant; and having grown up in this manner, they leave their own children uninstructed like unto themselves. For just as they themselves know only common reading and writing, they deem this measure sufficient for their children also; and they neither desire nor take care that they should learn grammar and the classical tongue as well, so that they might read and understand the Old and New Testaments, and the books of other soul-profiting doctrines and useful studies, and [thereby] become devout Christians, courteous, and patriotic. 5. Through negligence, certain men, deeming their precious Armenian tongue base and mean, [in their] home and fam[ily]...