Excerpt from Lecture on Teachers' Morals and Manners: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at Keene, N. H., August 1851

Past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man Upon the face of the earth, and ask, from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such great thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it. No, my friends, no such amazing contrast hath ever been known, and if it were not that with God all things are possible, one would be almost ready to believe that the like could never again be known. They were the feeblest of the feeble, faint, few, yet fearless, a wilderness and deso late snows of winter before them, a wild, an untried coast, a frozen soil, the terror of the savage dwellers of the land, a scanty supply of stores, homeless, houseless men and women and tender children, - yet all was nought to them, because there dwelt in every bosom the unquenchable fires of liberty - liberty, civil and religious. Loving women, and daring men, what could they not fearlessly encounter.l What have they not surely brought to pass.l And the deep secret of the whole success lies in the simple truth, that they were men of the Church and of the School-house. Blest badges of new-england sure sources of all her greatness Let me traverse through the wide fields of the air, at such towering height, that I can take into my range of sight all of cities and towns and villages and hamlets that dot the face of the re volving earth and I will tell you where the sons of new-england congregate, and where they make their home. It will be where I find these marks of their peculiar way of life, the spire and the school. And it is to these we are to trace her greatness, and to the continued existence of these we are to bind our hopes of her future in¿uences in directing and controling.

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