When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

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?

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .