Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the North Carolina Institute of Education: At Their Annual Meeting, June 19th, 1832
We well know how much time, reflection, and close and minute investigation are requisite, to enable even a highly gifted person, to present to the intelligent and well-informed, even on points of less interest and intricacy than Education, and the literary state of a country, any new and valuable thoughts, although the means of complete information be at command. How very little, then, should be looked for, from one whose course of thinking on such subjects was so early damped - who was without the aid of books, and nusus tained by health. I trust! Shall be excused for my frankness in saying, that I have obeyed your commands with the great est reluctance; and nothing but the return of the members of this society to their respective homes, before I heard of the selection they had made, - athe impracticability of a new appointment, and the fear of a bad effect resulting to an insti tution at its outset, whose object is so patriotic, could possi bly have prevailed on me to place myself before the public eye, under circumstances so unfavourable. I felt called upon for a sacrifice of my own feelings, and I have made it, in the hope of some good resulting from it, in saving the Institute from embarrassment.
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