A Method of Teaching Linear Drawing: Adapted to the Public Schools (Classic Reprint)

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Moral deficiency is even worse than this; a very few vicious characters are sufficient to destroy the peace, con taminato the innocence, and endanger the safety of a city. We feel justified, in assuming that improvement in moral education is needed among us or in other words, that our youth are not as innocent and virtuous as it is possible they might (with all the imperfections of human nature) be come and that any plan, which proposes to lead them to the cultivation of purity and virtue, is worthy attention; and if, on examination, it is thought to be feasible, ought not to be rejected.

The influences which go to form the sum of individual, and therefore of national character, are infinitely varied; each has a limited and often a hidden sphere of operation, and this brings doubt and difficulty into the business of public education, - acknowledged by all to be a most im portant concern, yet despaired of by many, as offering no fixed principle, opening no certain road to its objects.

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