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Education Is Our Only Political Safety. Outside Of This Ark All Is Deluge.

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.

Injustice Alone Can Shake Down The Pillars Of The Skies, And Restore The Reign Of Chaos And Night.

Let But The Public Mind Become Once Thoroughly Corrupt, And All Attempts To Secure Property, Liberty Or Life, By Mere Force Of Laws Written On Parchment, Will Be As Vain As To Put Up Printed Notices In An Orchard To Keep Off The Canker-worms.

The Pulpit Only "teaches" To Be Honest; The Market-place "trains" To Overreaching And Fraud; And Teaching Has Not A Tithe Of The Efficiency Of Training. Christ Never Wrote A Tract, But He Went About Doing Good.