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Excerpt from The Relation of Education to Patriotism
The Federal City from its centrality and the advantages which in other respects it must have over any other place in the United States ought to be preferred as a proper site for such a university.
These are not the words of a partisan - they are the words of a patriot, inspired by the broadest patriotism. Washington sought an institution not for'the institution's sake; in the fed eral city not for the federal city's sa-ke but an institution that should realize for the nation in the highest possible degree that unity of conception of federal power, that broad national charity among all the people that could be engendered only by bringing together at the seat of national government student-s from every part of the nation. Here they were to learn the science of state building - ea state with absolute sovereignty over those activities which entitle the state to be one in the family of nations. The complex form of our government, so difficult for many to understand - and yet so simple and perfect in its operation when understood, was to be studied from the seat of national power, where the governmental functions of national and international activities are being exercised and local interest-s subordinated and harmonized to the one great organic whole, to the end that the national government might stand before the world perfect and powerful as a great state.
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