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Excerpt from Albert Gallatin
Education, however, is not confined to instruo tion, nor is the in?uence of an academy to b measured by the extent of its curriculum, or the proficiency of its students, but rather by its genera) tone, moral and intellectual. The Calvinism of Geneva, narrow in its religious sense, was friendly to the spread of knowledge; and had this not been the case, the side in?uences of Roman Catholicism on the one hand, and the liberal spirit of the age on the other, would have tempered its exclusive tendency.
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