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Dedication of the new site, Morningside Heights. Saturday the second of May, 1896

Dedication of the new site, Morningside Heights. Saturday the second of May, 1896

Columbia University
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 ...The idea of personal liberty, which elsewhere was an abstraction, was made a reality in a new land, and the only landf in which no aristocracy had ever existed, and privilege was unknown. They were enthusiasts who came to a region where there were no prejudices to encounter, no abuses to overcome, no traditions to fetter the free spirit of man. While they claimed the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, they held this right always subordinated to the individual liberty of the citizen. In whatever else they may have differed among themselves or with their neighbors, civil liberty was never in question, and its rights were asserted whenever and wherever assailed by kings, governors or parliaments. They regarded liberty as an end, and not as a means. "To secure it, to enjoy it and to diffuse it was the main object of all their social arrangements and of all their political struggles. They held it to be the inalienable prerogative of man, which he had no right to barter away for himself, and still less for his children. It was a sacred deposit, and the love of it was the main instinct engraven in their hearts." These pioneers of freedom understood that without education liberty would perish from the land in which they had sought refuge. They were not numerous, but they were as prolific as they were earnest, self-reliant and independent. It is estimated that the three millions who inhabited the British colonies which joined in the Revolution were descended from less than one hundred thousand immigrants, nearly all of whom could read and write, and some of whom were very learned men and statesmen of the highest order. They realized the value and necessity of education in order to preserve the liberty which they sought in a new w...
Language
English
Pages
26
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 2012
ISBN 13
9781231556733

Dedication of the new site, Morningside Heights. Saturday the second of May, 1896

Columbia University
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 ...The idea of personal liberty, which elsewhere was an abstraction, was made a reality in a new land, and the only landf in which no aristocracy had ever existed, and privilege was unknown. They were enthusiasts who came to a region where there were no prejudices to encounter, no abuses to overcome, no traditions to fetter the free spirit of man. While they claimed the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, they held this right always subordinated to the individual liberty of the citizen. In whatever else they may have differed among themselves or with their neighbors, civil liberty was never in question, and its rights were asserted whenever and wherever assailed by kings, governors or parliaments. They regarded liberty as an end, and not as a means. "To secure it, to enjoy it and to diffuse it was the main object of all their social arrangements and of all their political struggles. They held it to be the inalienable prerogative of man, which he had no right to barter away for himself, and still less for his children. It was a sacred deposit, and the love of it was the main instinct engraven in their hearts." These pioneers of freedom understood that without education liberty would perish from the land in which they had sought refuge. They were not numerous, but they were as prolific as they were earnest, self-reliant and independent. It is estimated that the three millions who inhabited the British colonies which joined in the Revolution were descended from less than one hundred thousand immigrants, nearly all of whom could read and write, and some of whom were very learned men and statesmen of the highest order. They realized the value and necessity of education in order to preserve the liberty which they sought in a new w...
Language
English
Pages
26
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 2012
ISBN 13
9781231556733

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