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manry- morality in the diffused intelligence and aggregate
virtue of its citizens. Its wealth is as effectually promoted by
reaping the harvest of its own industry, and preventing exhaus-
tion, as by an increase of productions or the direct accumula-
tion of capital. Its political safety. the permanence of its free
institutions and the full growth of its patriotism, are especially
ensured by that domicilary education, which assocrates with
the sunshine and brightness pf childhood and adolescence, the
verdure of its fields and the benignity of its laws.

The dollars that are saved and the hundreds that are gained
to the state, by the resuscitation of the Transylvania University,
though not to be disregarded by the political economist, consti-
tute but dust in the balance, when it is remembered how the mo-
ral and political influence of Kentucky has thus been extended;
and conscience tells our children, and children's children
have been and will be thus furnished the means of liberal, en-
larged public education, in the bosom of their families and the
lap of their country. No foreign manners- no habits inconge-
nial with the softest, kindest and at the same time the most re
fined and most elevated sentiment; no alienation of feeling-
no propensity inimical to the simple republicanism of the father,
is generated in the mind of that youth who grows and ripens
under the vivifying rays of his natal sun. In a moral and poli-
tical point of view, your committee deem the influence of Tran-
sylvania University of infinate importance.

The prosperity of a republic is founded on virtue- national
virtue will, nay must always be proportioned to the intelligence
of a community.

The most extended instruction - the most perfect acquire-
ment - the most exquisite refinement of the few, constitue, not
that state of information, of intelliegence, of education which the
patriot admires or the rebublican demands. Knowledge diffys-
ed through the aggregate mass of society, elevating, purifying,
refining every class, is the foundation of public virtue and the
soul of liberty. The diffusion of learning, not its accumulation
in any individual, is most to be desired. What contributes to
that diffusion so effectually as cheapness? What brings it so
entirely within the family circle as engrafting it upon our own
stock and nurturing it in our own land?

That influence of Transylvania University, is already visable
in that general eagerness for classical and liberal education,
which supports the encreased number of prepartory schools
and subordinate colleges. Its influence will continue to spread;
the bar, the pulpit, the legislative assembly and the medical science
for unnumbered years, will hail with eulogy and thanksgiving,
the enlightened epoch which gave light and life to that insti-
tution.

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