8806. VICE, Knowledge and.—
Although I do not, with some enthusiasts, believe that
the human condition will ever advance to such
a state of perfection as that there shall no
longer be pain or vice in the world, yet I believe
it susceptible of much improvement, and
most of all, in matters of government and religion;
and that the diffusion of knowledge
among the people is to be the instrument by
which it is to be effected.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. vi, 592.
Ford ed., x, 25.
(P.F.,,
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