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Excerpt from A Report on the State of Education in Pennsylvania: Accompanied With Two Bills for the Establishment of a General System of Public Instruction and Other Proceedings, Opted by a Town Meeting of Working Men and Friendly to That Object Held in the Country House, Feb; 11, 1830; Also an Address on the Moral And
From the rapid increase of population, and multiplied facilities of intercourse, the simplicity of manners that characterized the earlier citizens of Pennsylvania, is fast yielding to European customs, and our children are wing up unprovided with that mental cultivation which is so essen to the formation of a character to' withstand the tempts tions to which they must be exposed, or counteract the machinations which the wily may invent for their circumvention. We have discarded the political errors of the old world, - let us also avoid its moral errors by adapting our popular education 'to our popular system of govern ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
