Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture: Delivered at the Opening of the Bangor Lyceum, Nov 15th, 1836
Next to the formation of a manly character, the highest object which the human mind can propose to itself, is the one contemplated in institutions like this - the education of the intellectual powers. To this end, whether we seek it or not, the whole course of things is made to minister. The edu.
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