467. ARISTOCRACY, Education and.—[continued].
This bill on education
would have raised the mass of the people to
the high ground of moral respectability necessary
to their own safety, and to orderly
government; and would have completed the
great object of qualifying them to secure the
veritable aristoi for the trusts of government
to the exclusion of the pseudalists. * * *
Although this law has not yet been acted on
but in a small and inefficient degree, it is still
considered as before the Legislature, * * *
and I have great hope that some patriotic
spirit will, at a favorable moment, call it up,
and make it the key stone of the arch of our
government.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vi, 226.
Ford ed., ix, 428.
(M.
1813)
