Publisher's Synopsis
-How horrible must be that system which demands as the necessary condition of its existence, that knowledge should be shut out from the minds of those who live under it-that they should be reduced as nearly as possible to the level of brutes, or living machines-that the powers of their souls should be crushed! Let each one of us ask, Can such a system be aided, or even tolerated, without deep criminality?- (Ad. to the Pres. of Ken. by a committee of the synod of Kentucky.