Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the General Influences of Morality and Religion |
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... consider the skeptical writers to be a set of men whose business it is to pick holes in the fabric of knowledge where- ever it is weak and faulty , and when those places are properly repaired the whole building becomes more firm and ...
... consider the skeptical writers to be a set of men whose business it is to pick holes in the fabric of knowledge where- ever it is weak and faulty , and when those places are properly repaired the whole building becomes more firm and ...
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... consider ! " -- Oh ! if that be all , " said the would - be governess , " I can change my name ! " I admire the naivete of the dancer less than her sagacity ; she knew that nine times out of ten , when the English ask for virtues , they ...
... consider ! " -- Oh ! if that be all , " said the would - be governess , " I can change my name ! " I admire the naivete of the dancer less than her sagacity ; she knew that nine times out of ten , when the English ask for virtues , they ...
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... consider morality only as operating on the connexions between the sexes . Morality , strictly translated with us , means the absence of licentiousness - it is another word for one of its properties - chastity ; as the word profligacy ...
... consider morality only as operating on the connexions between the sexes . Morality , strictly translated with us , means the absence of licentiousness - it is another word for one of its properties - chastity ; as the word profligacy ...
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... consider and balance the weight of their names and wealth and the grave sanction of their evangelical authority . Shall I have these men and this power with me or against me ? That is the question . On the one hand , if I can enlist ...
... consider and balance the weight of their names and wealth and the grave sanction of their evangelical authority . Shall I have these men and this power with me or against me ? That is the question . On the one hand , if I can enlist ...
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... consider the catechism every thing ! they might as well say , the accidence was every thing ! the catechism is at most the accidence of religion ! " One master was employed in keeping an account of the beer , and it was found that he ...
... consider the catechism every thing ! they might as well say , the accidence was every thing ! the catechism is at most the accidence of religion ! " One master was employed in keeping an account of the beer , and it was found that he ...
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Page 32 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 33 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 32 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Page 32 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionally essential.
Page 33 - A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 30 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 33 - Roads and canals, by multiplying and facilitating the communications and intercourse between distant regions and multitudes of men, are among the most important means of improvement. But moral, political, intellectual improvement are duties assigned by the Author of Our Existence to social no less than to individual man.
Page 34 - There is but one method of preventing crimes, and of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is, by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state, by means of proper modes and places of education, and this can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the legislature.
Page 5 - that though they have been in operation more than ten years, and on an average more than 3000 have been educated at them every year, not one of those educated there has been ever committed for a crime. In New York, a similar effect has been observed.
Page 34 - Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.