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An Address Delivered at the Opening of Queens College, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Opening of Queens College, 1853
Most excellent man. Object of the humblest School, in the most obscure corner of the country, is to furnish some portion of mental training. But an institution such as this professes to afford to those who come within its walls, a very liberal Share of the highest kind of intellectual culture. A college is a place in which minds Should be so trained, they shall be able to instruct and guide multitudes of other minds, who never can enjoy the advantages of a collegiate education. Man is the only creature in this world that requires to be educated by fellow creatures. The brutes have no schoolmaster, God is their great teach~ er. For we see that each possesses in itself, in those wonderful instincts with which it comes into the world, and which are acted on with nu.
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