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The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Prescribes The Wisest Rules For Just Conduct In Every Situation In Life. Happy They Who Are Enabled To Obey Them In All Situations!

I Grant This Mode Of Secluding Boys From The Intercourse Of Private Families Has A Tendency To Make Them Scholars, But Our Business Is To Make Them Men, Citizens, And Christians. The Vices Of Young People Are Generally Learned From Each Other. The Vices Of Adults Seldom Infect Them. By Separating Them From Each Other, Therefore, In Their Hours Of Relaxation From Study, We Secure Their Morals From A Principal Source Of Corruption, While We Improve Their Manners By Subjecting Them To Those Restraints Which The Difference Of Age And Sex Naturally Produce In Private Families.

The Business Of Education Has Lay[ed] The Foundations For Nurseries Of Wise And Good Men, To Adapt Our Modes Of Teaching To The Peculiar Form Of Our Government . . . . He Must Be Taught To Love His Fellow Creatures In Every Part Of The World, But He Must Cherish With A More Intense And Peculiar Affection The Citizens Of Pennsylvania And Of The United States.

We Have Not Only Multiplied Diseases, But We Have Made Them More Fatal.

Mothers And Schools Plant The Seeds Of Nearly All The Good And Evil Which Exists In The World.