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It Is Very Easy To Speak Words Of Wisdom From A Comfortable Distance, When One Sees No Reality, No Details, None Of The Effect On Men's Minds.

For Centuries It Was Never Discovered That Education Was A Function Of The State, And The State Never Attempted To Educate. But When Modern Absolutism Arose, It Laid Claim To Everything On Behalf Of The Sovereign Power....when The Revolutionary Theory Of Government Began To Prevail, And Church And State Found That They Were Educating For Opposite Ends And In A Contradictory Spirit, It Became Necessary To Remove Children Entirely From The Influence Of Religion.

There Is No Error So Monstrous That It Fails To Find Defenders Among The Ablest Men.

Do Not Turn Yourself From An End Into A Means-one Does Not Justify The Other.

The Fate Of Every Democracy, Of Every Government Based On The Sovereignty Of The People, Depends On The Choices It Makes Between These Opposite Principles, Absolute Power On The One Hand, And On The Other The Restraints Of Legality And The Authority Of Tradition.