Most Men Make The Voyage Of Life

The Opening Of The First Grammar School Was The Opening Of The First Trench Against Monopoly In Church And State.

And The Poorest Twig On The Elm-tree Was Ridged Inch Deep With Pearl.

To Me It Seems Not Unreasonable To Find A Re-enforcement Of Optimism, A Renewal Of Courage And Hope, In The Modern Theory That Man Has Mounted To What He Is From The Lowest Step Of Potentiality, Through Toilsome Grades Of Ever-expanding Existence, Even Thought It Have Been By A Spiral Stairway, Mainly Dark Or Dusty, With Loop-holes At Long Intervals Only, And These Granting But A Narrow And One-sided View.

Human Nature Has A Much Greater Genius For Sameness Than For Originality.

It Was In Making Education Not Only Common To All, But In Some Sense Compulsory On All, That The Destiny Of The Free Republics Of America Was Practically Settled.