Spurn Not At Seeming Error, But Dig

You May Be Liberal In Your Praise Where Praise Is Due: It Costs Nothing; It Encourages Much.

Under The Providence Of God, Our Means Of Education Are The Grand Machinery By Which The 'raw Material' Of Human Nature Can Be Worked Up Into Inventors And Discoverers, Into Skilled Artisans And Scientific Farmers, Into Scholars And Jurists, Into The Founders Of Benevolent Institutions, And The Great Expounders Of Ethical And Theological Science.

Let The Common School Be Expanded To Its Capabilities, Let It Be Worked With The Efficiency Of Which It Is Susceptible, And Nine Tenths Of The Crimes In The Penal Code Would Become Obsolete; The Long Catalogue Of Human Ills Would Be Abridged; Men Would Walk More Safely By Day; Every Pillow Would Be More Inviolate By Night; Property, Life, And Character Held By A Stronger Tenure; All Rational Hopes Respecting The Future Brightened.

Ignorance Has Been Well Represented Under The Similitude Of A Dungeon, Where, Though It Is Full Of Life, Yet Darkness And Silence Reign. But In Society The Bars And Locks Have Been Broken; The Dungeon Itself Is Demolished; The Prisoners Are Out; They Are In The Midst Of Us. We Have No Security But To Teach And Renovate Them.

Knowledge Has Its Boundary Line, Where It Abuts On Ignorance; On The Outside Of That Boundary Line Are Ignorance And Miracles; On The Inside Of It Are Science And No Miracles.