They Who Set An Example

Every Event In This World Is The Effect Of Some Precedent Cause, And Also The Cause Of Some Subsequent Effect.

As An Innovation... The Establishment Of Free Schools Was The Boldest Ever Promulgated, Since The Commencement Of The Christian Era... Time Has Ratified Its Soundness. Two Centuries Proclaim It To Be As Wise As It Was Courageous, As Beneficient As It Was Disinterested. It Was One Of Those Grand Mental And Moral Experiments... The Sincerity Of Our Gratitude Must Be Tested By Our Efforts To Perpetuate And Improve What They Established. The Gratitude Of The Lips Only Is An Unholy Offering.

Great Knowledge Is Requisite To Instruct Those Who Have Been Well Instructed, But Still Greater Knowledge Is Requisite To Instruct Those Who Have Been Neglected.

They Who Set An Example Make A Highway. Others Follow The Example, Because It Is Easier To Travel On A Highway Than Over Untrodden Grounds.

Every School Boy And School Girl Who Has Arrived At The Age Of Reflection Ought To Know Something About The History Of The Art Of Printing.