An Address To The People Of New Jersey On The Subject Of Common Schools

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Excerpt from An Address to the People of New Jersey: On the Subject of Common Schools Fellow citizens, We were appointed by the Convention of your own delegates, which assembled at Trenton, on the 16th ultimo, to address you, on the subject of Common Schools. We approach you with solicitude, as deeply sensible of the great importance of the interest entrusted to us; yet, as freemen speaking to freemen, with prevailing confidence. The points which we propose for your attention, and, if we might, would press into every heart, are few, simple, and practical; the necessary consequences, it seems to us, from principles which all admit. We say that knowledge is the universal right of man: and we need bring no clearer demonstration than that intellectual nature, capable of it, thirsting for it, expanding and aspiring with it, which is God's own argument in every living soul. We say that the assertion for himself of this inherent right, to the full measure of his abilities and opportunities, is the universal duty of man: and that whoever fails of it, thwarts the design of his Creator; and. in proportion as he neglects the gift of God, dwarfs and enslaves and brutifies the high capacity for truth and liberty which he inherits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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