Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Thoughts on the Constitution of Rhode Island
Progress in Rhode Island has not been merely a material progress. Education has been a matter of public concern. Schools abound, and excellent teachers, paid from the pub lic purse, are everywhere supplied. The people have be come a people of readers. Free libraries, encouraged and endowed by the State, spring up in village and hamlet to satisfy the popular thirst for knowledge. Illiteracy exists, without doubt; but if any Rhode Islander has grown up illiterate during the last forty years, the State is surely not to blame for it. I confess, I do not anticipate the great sults which some anticipate from a general addiction to ih discriminate reading. Knowledge, especially the knowledge gathered from books and newspapers, is not power until ap plied to use, nor wisdom until converted into character. Knowledge, however, merely as knowledge, is a good, un less abused, and in Rhode Island the doors of knowledge are open to all. 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.
