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When You Introduce Into Our Schools A Spirit Of Emulation, You Have Present The Keenest Spur Admissible To The Youthful Intellect.

Resistance To Improvement Contradicts The Noblest Instincts Of The Race. It Begets Its Opposite. The Fanaticism Of Reform Is Only The Raging Of The Accumulated Waters Caused By The Obstructions Which An Ultra Conservatism Has Thrown Across The Stream Of Progress; And Revolution Itself Is But The Sudden Overwhelming And Sweeping Away Of Impediments That Should Have Been Seasonably Removed.

Even The Choicest Literature Should Be Taken As The Condiment, And Not As The Sustenance Of Life. It Should Be Neither The Warp Nor The Woof Of Existence, But Only The Flowery Edging Upon Its Borders.

The Most Precious Wine Is Produced Upon The Sides Of Volcanoes. Now Bold And Inspiring Ideals Are Only Born Of A Clear Head That Stands Over A Glowing Heart.

New Constellations Of Truth Are Daily Discovered In The Firmament Of Knowledge, And New Stars Are Daily Shining Forth In Each Constellation.