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as a question of education. Good schools, therefore, are
the best gift a preceding period can give to a future.
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Amongst the “sloyd-schools” thus established during
the period we have mentioned, that at Nääs was one
of the earliest. Nääs is an estate
situated in the government-district
of Elfsborg, about 18 miles
from Gothenburg. This old
property, the main-building of which
is said by tradition to have served
as a royal huntingseat during the
15th century, was 35 years ago
in the possession of August
Abrahamson, who had retired to the
place in order to enjoy the fruits
of an industrious life. Abrahamson,
who was born December
29th, 1817, at Karlskrona in the south of Sweden, came to
Gothenburg at the age of 14, and in 1840 founded an
import firm which
gradually became one of
the largest of its kind
in Sweden. After having
amassed a fortune,
a somewhat
considerable one from a
Swedish point of view,
he relinquished the
business to others in
1868 and took up his
residence at Nääs. Here, assisted by his nephew, the
present administrator and director of the Institution, he
established in 1872 the Nääs sloyd-school for boys, which
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