Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the General Influences of Morality and Religion |
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... oppression and the exercise of lawful authority ; between burdens arising from
a disregard to their inconvenience and those resulting from the inevitable
exigencies of society ; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of
licentiousness ...
... oppression and the exercise of lawful authority ; between burdens arising from
a disregard to their inconvenience and those resulting from the inevitable
exigencies of society ; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of
licentiousness ...
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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.
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| Title | Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the General Influences of Morality and Religion |
| Author | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton |
| Publisher | E.W. & L.D. Newton, printers, 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 35 pages |
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