The Living Soul Of Man, Once Conscious

A House Without Books Is Like A Room Without Windows. No Man Has A Right To Bring Up His Children Without Surrounding Them With Books, If He Has The Means To Buy Them.

Reproof Is A Medicine, Like Mercury Or Opium; If It Be Improperly Administered, It Will Do Harm Instead Of Good.

Without Undervaluing Any Other Human Agency, It May Be Safely Affirmed That The Common School, Improved And Energized, As It Can Easily Be, May Become The Most Effective And Benignant Of All The Forces Of Civilization. Two Reasons Sustain This Position. In The First Place, There Is A Universality In Its Operation, Which Can Be Affirmed Of No Other Institution Whatever... And, In The Second Place, The Materials Upon Which It Operates Are So Pliant And Ductile As To Be Susceptible Of Assuming A Greater Variety Of Forms Than Any Other Earthly Work Of The Creator.

Want Of Occupation Is The Bane Of Both Men And Women, Perhaps More Especially Of The Latter.

Finally, In Regard To Those Who Possess The Largest Shares In The Stock Of Worldly Goods, Could There, In Your Opinion, Be Any Police So Vigilant And Effetive, For The Protections Of All The Rights Of Person, Property And Character, As Such A Sound And Comprehensive Education And Training, As Our System Of Common Schools Could Be Made To Impart; And Would Not The Payment Of A Sufficient Tax To Make Such Education And Training Universal, Be The Cheapest Means Of Self-protection And Insurance?