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If Ever There Was A Cause, If Ever There Can Be A Cause, Worthy To Be Upheld By All Of Toil Or Sacrifice That The Human Heart Can Endure, It Is The Cause Of Education. It Has Intrinsic And Indestructible Merits. It Holds The Welfare Of Mankind In Its Embrace, As The Protecting Arms Of A Mother Hold Her Infant To Her Bosom. The Very Ignorance And Selfishness Which Obstructs Its Path Are The Strongest Arguments For Its Promotion, For It Furnishes The Only Adequate Means For Their Removal.

As An Innovation... The Establishment Of Free Schools Was The Boldest Ever Promulgated, Since The Commencement Of The Christian Era... Time Has Ratified Its Soundness. Two Centuries Proclaim It To Be As Wise As It Was Courageous, As Beneficient As It Was Disinterested. It Was One Of Those Grand Mental And Moral Experiments... The Sincerity Of Our Gratitude Must Be Tested By Our Efforts To Perpetuate And Improve What They Established. The Gratitude Of The Lips Only Is An Unholy Offering.

There Is Nothing Derogatory In Any Employment Which Ministers To The Well-being Of The Race. It Is The Spirit That Is Carried Into An Employment That Elevates Or Degrades It.

As Each Generation Comes Into The World Devoid Of Knowledge, Its First Duty Is To Obtain Possession Of The Stores Already Amassed. It Must Overtake Its Predecessors Before It Can Pass By Them.

Virtue Is An Angel, But She Is A Blind One, And Must Ask Knowledge To Show Her The Pathway That Leads To Her Goal.