Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the General Influences of Morality and ReligionE.W. & L.D. Newton, printers, 1833 - 35 sider |
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Side 9
... opinion that an efficient system of National Education would materially improve the condition of the labouring classes ? " Answer . " Undoubtedly ; but I must beg leave to observe , that something more than the mere teaching to read and ...
... opinion that an efficient system of National Education would materially improve the condition of the labouring classes ? " Answer . " Undoubtedly ; but I must beg leave to observe , that something more than the mere teaching to read and ...
Side 14
... opinion , it pro- ceeds from the best intentions - it produces very dangerous conse- quences both to morality , and to religion itself . These reasoners imagine and contend that religion and morality have the same ori- gin , that they ...
... opinion , it pro- ceeds from the best intentions - it produces very dangerous conse- quences both to morality , and to religion itself . These reasoners imagine and contend that religion and morality have the same ori- gin , that they ...
Side 16
... opinion , and that at this mo- ment we are so immeasurably behind either Germany or France in the progress of ethical science . Not so in that country which your birth and labours have adorned . While for more than a century we have ...
... opinion , and that at this mo- ment we are so immeasurably behind either Germany or France in the progress of ethical science . Not so in that country which your birth and labours have adorned . While for more than a century we have ...
Side 17
... opinions formed , and institutions recommended upon the most erroneous views of human nature , and the necessary operations of the mind . A chasm has taken place between private and public virtue ; they are supposed to be separa- ble ...
... opinions formed , and institutions recommended upon the most erroneous views of human nature , and the necessary operations of the mind . A chasm has taken place between private and public virtue ; they are supposed to be separa- ble ...
Side 21
... opinion to fortify myself by the expression of a similar senti ment in M. Cousin , in which it is difficult to say whether we should admire most the eloquence , or the sagacity , or the common sense . I subjoin some extracts : The ...
... opinion to fortify myself by the expression of a similar senti ment in M. Cousin , in which it is difficult to say whether we should admire most the eloquence , or the sagacity , or the common sense . I subjoin some extracts : The ...
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Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the ... Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
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Side 32 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Side 33 - 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.
Side 32 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Side 32 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionally essential.
Side 33 - 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.
Side 30 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Side 33 - Roads and canals, by multiplying and facilitating the communications and intercourse between distant regions and multitudes of men, are among the most important means of improvement. But moral, political, intellectual improvement are duties assigned by the Author of Our Existence to social no less than to individual man.
Side 34 - There is but one method of preventing crimes, and of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is, by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state, by means of proper modes and places of education, and this can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the legislature.
Side 5 - that though they have been in operation more than ten years, and on an average more than 3000 have been educated at them every year, not one of those educated there has been ever committed for a crime. In New York, a similar effect has been observed.
Side 34 - Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.