[Gutenberg 48194] • Ryerson Memorial Volume / Prepared on the occasion of the unveiling of the Ryerson statute in the grounds of the Education department on the Queen's birthday, 1889

I have two reasons to give for the part which I have taken in the preparation of the latter part of this Memorial Volume. The first is mentioned in the following paragraph from the brief resum� of the historical and personal facts given in the volume, and which I read on the day of the unveiling of the statue, as follows: - "It devolves upon me, as Chairman of the (Ryerson Memorial Statue) Committee, and at the kind request of my colleagues-no less than as the life-long friend and fellow-labourer of him whose deeds and memory we honour to-day-to trace back to their source the origin and underlying principles of our system of education, and to show that these underlying principles and other vital forces were so combined by a master-hand as to form the groundwork, as they have, in their combination, become the charter of our educational system of to-day." The second reason is contained in the following paragraphs-containing a brief record of Dr. Ryerson's thirty-two years in the Public Service, taken from The Story of My Life.