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... Millions ignorant of their own science - Man prone to idle- ness - Proper education useful - If all from 5 to 21 are trained in school , they cannot make livings - To make them work all this time is to be drudges - Should be practical ...
... Millions ignorant of their own science - Man prone to idle- ness - Proper education useful - If all from 5 to 21 are trained in school , they cannot make livings - To make them work all this time is to be drudges - Should be practical ...
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... millions of taxes upon the com- munity in the name of charity , which is not so . Because a boy is destitute of a dinner , it does not follow that he is to be fed all his life . That having no clothes or home , he is to be clothed and ...
... millions of taxes upon the com- munity in the name of charity , which is not so . Because a boy is destitute of a dinner , it does not follow that he is to be fed all his life . That having no clothes or home , he is to be clothed and ...
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... million of the people's hard earnings , and every cent of which has been extracted from them against law . There is no legislative vote , or order of any County Board , or Board of County Commissioners , assessors or auditors ...
... million of the people's hard earnings , and every cent of which has been extracted from them against law . There is no legislative vote , or order of any County Board , or Board of County Commissioners , assessors or auditors ...
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... million have had this light profusely shed upon them , at the cost of many millions of the hard earnings of the people ; by this time facts and irrefragable statistics demonstrating its moral utility ought to be produced . It was hoped ...
... million have had this light profusely shed upon them , at the cost of many millions of the hard earnings of the people ; by this time facts and irrefragable statistics demonstrating its moral utility ought to be produced . It was hoped ...
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... millions have been regenerated under religious excitement , whose intellectual capacities were too weak to re- ceive or retain the rudiments of human knowledge ; and that education , with all its best appointments , does not change the ...
... millions have been regenerated under religious excitement , whose intellectual capacities were too weak to re- ceive or retain the rudiments of human knowledge ; and that education , with all its best appointments , does not change the ...
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