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...emulation between the communes, between individuals a fruitful rivalry. Educational institutions would be created according to the needs of the community, and would prosper in proportion to their excellence. With liberty would come that feeling of responsibility which is inseparable from it; and with the responsibility alone, welfare and progress...
...instructors, that cannot but be productive of the best results. Indeed, it may be said that no one thing is of such vital importance to the well-being of an institution of learning, as perfect union of sympathy and purpose between instructors and instructed. This alone insures successful progress in the walks of learning...
...Universal Peace shall dawn before the Millennium. Matters of boundary-lines may be decided by councils, and wars of territorial aggrandizement cease; but the clash of ideas has ever been, and seems likely ever to be, attended by physical strife. The bloodiest pages in history record most fully the progress of truth. But whether war be regarded as a necessary element of advance or not, any measures to diminish its frequency, so as to cut off all but the inevitable, must be welcomed by every one. The gift is appreciated by us, not only as indicative of his ample generosity...
...Sentiment in the Magenta," which appeared in the last Advocate. The impression first made upon me was that of astonishment, which soon gave way to feelings of regret that the sentiments expressed in the above-mentioned article should exist among Harvard men. How can we wonder at the rapid progress of irreverence among young Americans! With what justice can we complain of the ignorant foreign population, by whose voice our great cities are governed, when our educated young men give utterance to such thoughts...
...which exercise a very general influence. These are directed by priests and sisters of charity, and are called Christian, as if the others were not. I leave you to judge what instruction or notion of education men can give who are the avowed enemies of the modern spirit of progress, that spirit which has taken for its motto, liberty, enlightenment, progress. If I have in any degree been successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France and of the manner in which it is given. Without any circumlocution, without...