Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public EducationG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890 - 387 páginas |
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... Knowledge , " and will compare them with the educational system which one of the Humboldts especially helped to give to Prussia , may well feel that American statesmanship has exerted a vastly weightier influence on Germany's history ...
... Knowledge , " and will compare them with the educational system which one of the Humboldts especially helped to give to Prussia , may well feel that American statesmanship has exerted a vastly weightier influence on Germany's history ...
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... knowledge of that country more accurate than I believe we possess of Europe , the seat of a science of a thousand years . It comes out , too , at a moment when those countries are beginning to be interesting to the whole world . They ...
... knowledge of that country more accurate than I believe we possess of Europe , the seat of a science of a thousand years . It comes out , too , at a moment when those countries are beginning to be interesting to the whole world . They ...
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... knowledge of their rights , and that much blood may be shed for little improvement in their condi- tion . Should their new rulers honestly lay their shoul- ders to remove the great obstacles of ignorance , and FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY .
... knowledge of their rights , and that much blood may be shed for little improvement in their condi- tion . Should their new rulers honestly lay their shoul- ders to remove the great obstacles of ignorance , and FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY .
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... under the administration of reasonable laws favoring the progress of knowledge in the general mass of the people , and their habituation to an independent security of person and property , before they will be FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY . 21.
... under the administration of reasonable laws favoring the progress of knowledge in the general mass of the people , and their habituation to an independent security of person and property , before they will be FRIENDS OF CIVIL LIBERTY . 21.
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... knowledge of man , ) thought more could still be obtained and borne . They did not weigh the hazards of a transition from one form of government to another , the value of what they had already rescued from those hazards , and might hold ...
... knowledge of man , ) thought more could still be obtained and borne . They did not weigh the hazards of a transition from one form of government to another , the value of what they had already rescued from those hazards , and might hold ...
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Página 284 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 213 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 113 - 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.
Página 247 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 284 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 246 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Página 284 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 355 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Página 266 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Página 60 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.