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2875. FANATICISM, Education and.—

The atmosphere of our country is unquestionably
charged with a threatening cloud of fanaticism,
lighter in some parts, denser in
others, but too heavy in all. * * * The
diffusion of instruction * * * will be the
* * * remedy for this fever of fanaticism.—
To Thomas Cooper. Washington ed. vii, 266. Ford ed., x, 242.
(M. 1822)