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7722. SCHOOLS, Fostering genius in.—

By that part of our plan [of education in Virginia]


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which prescribes the selection of the youths of genius from among the classes of
the poor, we hope to avail the State of those
talents which nature has sown as liberally
among the poor as the rich, but which perish
without use, if not sought for and cultivated.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 390. Ford ed., iii, 254.
(1782)

See Genius.