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It Is The High Privilege And Sacred Duty Of Those Now Living To Educate Their Successors And Fit Them, By Intelligence And Virtue, For The Inheritance Which Awaits Them.

The Chief Instrument Of American Statistics Is The Census, Which Should Accomplish A Two-fold Object. It Should Serve The Country By Making A Full And Accurate Exhibit Of The Elements Of National Life And Strength, And It Should Serve The Science Of Statistics By So Exhibiting General Results That They May Be Compared With Similar Data Obtained By Other Nations.

[i]t Would Be Unjust To Our People And Dangerous To Our Institutions To Apply Any Portion Of Revenues Of The Nation Or Of The States To The Support Of Sectarian Schools.

History Is But The Unrolled Scroll Of Prophecy.

Suicide Is Not A Remedy