Republics, One After Another . . .

If Ever There Was A Cause, If Ever There Can Be A Cause, Worthy To Be Upheld By All Of Toil Or Sacrifice That The Human Heart Can Endure, It Is The Cause Of Education. It Has Intrinsic And Indestructible Merits. It Holds The Welfare Of Mankind In Its Embrace, As The Protecting Arms Of A Mother Hold Her Infant To Her Bosom. The Very Ignorance And Selfishness Which Obstructs Its Path Are The Strongest Arguments For Its Promotion, For It Furnishes The Only Adequate Means For Their Removal.

When The Panting And Thirsting Soul First Drinks The Delicious Waters Of Truth, When The Moral And Intellectual Tastes And Desires First Seize The Fragrant Fruits That Flourish In The Garden Of Knowledge, Then Does The Child Catch A Glimpse And Foretaste Of Heaven.

Ignorance Breeds Monsters To Fill Up The Vacancies Of The Soul That Are Unoccupied By The Verities Of Knowledge.

There Is Nothing So Costly As Ignorance.

There Is A Deeper Pleasure In Following Truth To The Scaffold Or The Cross, Than In Joining The Multitudinous Retinue, And Mingling Our Shouts With Theirs, When Victorious Error Celebrates Its Triumphs.