The Education of a Free People: The Introductory Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction at Their Annual Meeting in 1839Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1840 - 33 strani |
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Stran 3 - ... whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness.
Stran 3 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Stran 3 - Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
Stran 32 - ... the earnings of commerce. Making the proper allowance for these particulars, it cannot be doubted that the value created by the productive industry of the State, in one year, exceeds one hundred millions of dollars. Of this sum, fifty-four millions are the wages of labor ; about eighteen millions are the wages of capital ; and there will remain therefore about twenty-eight millions to be the reward of talent, skill, and ingenuity. So that this is, if measured by a pecuniary standard, clearly...
Stran 33 - ... distance all her rivals in the career of improvement. This have common schools done, but they have not yet exhausted their power. They are as yet only the rudiments of an institution destined to mould anew the character, to create anew the fortunes of the nations. He who measures their influence starts back in astonishment at the magnitude of the results already realized. He who considers what their influence might be, is no less astonished at the waste of our means, and the neglect of our resources....
Stran 32 - ... beyond that of capital. A return of the products of industry in Massachusetts, made last year to the Secretary of State, exhibited a total of more than eighty-two millions of dollars. It is true, that in this return, no allowance is made for the cost of the raw material of the manufactured articles ; but neither did it include the products of agriculture generally, nor the earnings of commerce. Making the proper allowance for these particulars, it cannot be doubted that the value created by the...
Stran 3 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.