Prospectus, Issues 1-2 |
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Page 5
... increasing will be the demand . In about twenty years , at the present rate of increase , our population will be doubled . Of course , if the means of intellectual improvement only keep pace with the increase of our numbers , we must ...
... increasing will be the demand . In about twenty years , at the present rate of increase , our population will be doubled . Of course , if the means of intellectual improvement only keep pace with the increase of our numbers , we must ...
Page 6
... increasing influx of foreign popula- tion , for whose intellectual culture no suitable provision is made . During eight ... increase the number ; and no one can tell how great and numerous the arrivals from the old world will be , when ...
... increasing influx of foreign popula- tion , for whose intellectual culture no suitable provision is made . During eight ... increase the number ; and no one can tell how great and numerous the arrivals from the old world will be , when ...
Page 7
... increasing . The Society has already collected a mass of statistics , relative to the progress of the art of printing , showing the extent to which the business of printing and publishing has already been prosecuted in some European ...
... increasing . The Society has already collected a mass of statistics , relative to the progress of the art of printing , showing the extent to which the business of printing and publishing has already been prosecuted in some European ...
Page 8
... increase of its issues , dur- ing the last ten years , will give to the world , in ten years to come , more than twenty thousand new works in the English language , exclusive of pamphlets and re - prints . A large proportion of these ...
... increase of its issues , dur- ing the last ten years , will give to the world , in ten years to come , more than twenty thousand new works in the English language , exclusive of pamphlets and re - prints . A large proportion of these ...
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... increased , until , in about two years , the sphere of their operations became so extended , that it was found necessary to divide the Institution into two distinct branches . One branch was incorporated by William III . , under the ...
... increased , until , in about two years , the sphere of their operations became so extended , that it was found necessary to divide the Institution into two distinct branches . One branch was incorporated by William III . , under the ...
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Page 7 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Page 7 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 7 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric...
Page 7 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 7 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in...