The first lecture on popular education ; The second lecture on popular education ; The third lecture on popular education / by J. Orville Taylor.

  • Taylor, J. Orville.
Date:
[between 1840 and 1849]
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Credit: The first lecture on popular education ; The second lecture on popular education ; The third lecture on popular education / by J. Orville Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have powers which, had they been evolved by an early self-training, would have placed them among the first statesmen of the age. But now, after their cheap schools and penury of instruction, Live unknown, and drop into a peasant's grave. The state neglected the school and lost her true source of wealth; for an ignorant man is like a lump of iron ore, worth one sous ; while he who is educated to look before and after, who observes while he thinks, and thinks when he observes, is like the lump of ore refined, and made into watch springs, worth six millions of sous. The success of christian effort depends on Common Schools. We will take for an illustration that best of all causes, the Bible cause. And, ladies and gentlemen, if we wish to secure the triumph of the Bible, we must begin by securing the triumph of Common Schools. The Rev. Dr. Duff, Missionary to India, told the Gene- ral Assembly that, from a want of knowledge and science, the Hindoos were not capable of estimating the evidence of the gospel, which, to their dark, feeble minds, appeared like an old wife's fable. Dr. Duff proposed that the Board of Missions should give to the Hindoos instruction in the various branches of a com- mon education, that their minds might be able to see the truth and importance of the scriptures. Before the sower goes forth to sow his seed, the ground must be prepared. Common Schools must plough for the Bible. The seed will not take root if the ground be not ploughed ; neither can the Bible be understood if Common Schools have not gone before it. The Bible, then, that charter of liberty—the Magna Charta of a world's freedom— shineth in darkness,