Civilization

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Public education, having to do with the intellect and spirit of a people, is probably the most subtle and far-reaching engine for molding the course of a nation...

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We believe culture and public health are services on which we can never spend enough for our people; and the more we can give, the better it will be for all.

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The schools, which are everywhere established, or are establishing, for their instruction, make it impossible for the greatest visionary to suppose that any class of men can much longer be kept in ignorance of the principles on which societies are formed and governed.

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Let us limit ourselves at present to opening up the new path that consists in the study of the needs of man, and the means of satisfying them.

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...two passions: the desire for knowledge and the desire to act for the good of humanity, two noble passions which can be mutually useful and which one would like to see in all men, without being, for all this, one and the same thing.

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...an education for the untaught and ill-taught becomes of the first importance to the welfare of society.

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Those whose guiding motive in life has been to preserve their personal privileges and to serve their personal gains, have always opposed educational and other reforms affecting the masses. The lovers of humanity, including those whose love was limited, have carried through such reforms, in spite of the prejudiced, the selfish and the ignorant in all classes.

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...if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

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...when anything important is at stake it's wonderful how it sharpens one's wits.

Chronology :

April 12, 2020 : Civilization -- Added.

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