Benjamin Rush and his services to American educationWitness Press, 1918 - 283 páginas |
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Página 52 - We have wisdom, virtue and strength enough to save us if they could be called into action. The northern army has shown us what Americans are capable of doing with a general at their head. The spirit of the southern army is no way inferior to the spirit of the northern. A Gates, a Lee or a Conway would in a few weeks render them an irresistible body of men.
Página 182 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 45 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA '; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Página 172 - To conform the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens, to our republican forms of government, it is absolutely necessary, that Knowledge of every kind should be disseminated through every part of the United States. For this purpose, let Congress, instead of laying out half a million of dollars, in building a federal town, appropriate only a fourth of that sum, in founding a federal university.
Página 155 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Página 201 - Government is a science, and can never be perfect in America until we encourage men to devote not only three years but their whole lives to it. I believe the principal reason why so many men of abilities object to serving in Congress is owing to their not thinking it worth while to spend three years in acquiring a profession which their country immediately afterwards forbids them to follow.
Página 212 - Should this plan of a federal University, or one like it, be adopted, then will begin the golden age of the United States. While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra, and the antiquities of Herculaneum ; or in dispute about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language...
Página 203 - ... nations of Europe, and transmit to him, from time to time, all the discoveries and improvements that are made in agriculture and manufactures. To this seminary young men should be encouraged to repair, after completing their academical studies in the colleges of their respective States. The honors and offices of the United States should, after a while, be confined to persons who had imbibed federal and republican ideas in this university.
Página 206 - To effect this great and necessary work, let one of the first acts of the new Congress be, to establish, within the district to be allotted for them, a federal University, into which the youth of the United States shal be received after they have finished their studies, and taken degrees in the colleges of their respective States.
Página 202 - The people of America have mistaken the meaning of the word sovereignty : hence each state pretends to be sovereign. In Europe it is applied only to those states which possess the power of making war and peace — of forming treaties, and the like.