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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Advantages of a National University, Especially in Its Influence on the Union of the States: Delivered, by Request, to the Erodelphian Society of Miami University, on the Seventh Anniversary of That Institution, September 25th, 1832
The general benefits of education, as the parent of literature, science, and the arts, and an auxiliary in morals and good government, have fiirnished, for ages, a standing theme of academical discourses. Unwil ling, therefore, to ask you to accompany me over a field, the full harvests of Which have been gathered in by others, and Where the gleanings might but ill reward our toil in collecting them, I shall offer no apology for declining to select the same topics, as the ground of the exercise I am about to engage ih. Partly moreover fi'om your daily studies, and in part fi'om other incidental causes, it is scarcely probable that the subject is less familiar to you than to myself Nor can it fail to possess for you, in the spring-time of your lives, when your sensibilities are vivid, and your fancies creative, a freshness and a charm, Which must have rendered it an object of the liveliest atten tion. This being the case, you are already so fully apprized of its extent and value, that no effort of mine could add to the interest you naturally feel in it, or strengthen the impression your minds have received from the habitual contemplation of it.
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