The Gentleman Puts Me In Mind Of

The Rights Of Conscience, Of Bearing Arms, Of Changing The Government, Are Declared To Be Inherent In The People.

The People As A Body Cannot Deliberate. Nevertheless, They Will Feel An Irresistible Impulse To Act, And Their Resolutions Will Be Dictated To Them By Their Demagogues... And The Violent Men, Who Are The Most Forward To Gratify Those Passions, Will Be Their Favorites. What Is Called The Government Of The People Is In Fact Too Often The Arbitrary Power Of Such Men. Here, Then, We Have The Faithful Portrait Of Democracy.

Why Then, If These New Books For Children Must Be Retained, As They Will Be, Should Not The Bible Regain The Place It Once Held As A School Book ?

We Have A Dangerous Trend Beginning To Take Place In Our Education. We're Starting To Put More And More Textbooks Into Our Schools. We've Become Accustomed Of Late Of Putting Little Books Into The Hands Of Children, Containing Fables And Moral Lessons. We're Spending Less Time In The Classroom On The Bible, Which Should Be The Principal Text In Our Schools. The Bible States These Great Moral Lessons Better Than Any Other Man-made Book.

All Such Men Are, Or Ought To Be, Agreed, That Simple Governments Are Despotisms; And Of All Despotisms, A Democracy, Though The Least Durable, Is The Most Violent.