Part 13 (1/2)

However wisely said, when first said, it is not wise to ”look to the government for too much;” and there can be no reasonable doubt of the ability of the farmers to institute and perfect such measures of self-education as are at present needed But the spirit in which they enter upon this work must be broad, co, I hope, of exa of power, in their experience as friends and supporters of our syste of all these, I trust, in the facts that this system is kept in motion by the self-imposed taxation of the whole people; that all individuals and classes oftheir differences of opinion in politics and religion, rally to its support, as being in itself a safe basis on which may be built whatever structures men of wisdom and virtue and piety may desire to erect, whether they labor first and chiefly for the world that is, or for that which is to come

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[10] Hon George S Hillard

JUVENILE BOOKS

THE ROLLO BOOKS By REV JACOB ABBOTT

Rollo Learning to Talk

Rollo Learning to Read

Rollo at Work

Rollo at Play

Rollo at School

Rollo's Vacation

Rollo's Experiments

Rollo's Museum

Rollo's Travels

Rollo's Correspondence

Rollo's Philosophy--Water

Rollo's Philosophy--Fire

Rollo's Philosophy--Air