Culture and Practical Power: An Address Delivered at the Opening of Lansdowne College, Portage La Prairie, on November 11th, 1889 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Mr. Davin, who was received with cheers, said: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I do not intend to enter on any political issue. I may say to my rev. Friend who dilated on the Jesuits' Estates Act that he need not suppose that because no one here tonight answers him that his statements are unanswerable. I have known only three cases in which men who have taken his View and vituperated the action of the ungodly 188, who had fulfilled the first indispensable condition of a fruitful Opinion, namely, read the Act. I have seen that the strength of assertion has been in exact proportion to the ignorance of the speaker. I myself have had several Orange friends - some of them masters of lodges - come to me and speak in somewhat excited tones. My first question was: Have you read the Act? The invariable answer was in the negative. Then suppose we read it. In not a single case did they fail to say: Our Opinion is entirely altered. I shall have to speak of the subject either in or out of thehouse, and I have no fear but that any Orangeman who may do me the honour to read my speech will approve of my vote last session.

When the Principal of the college did me the honour of inviting me' to address you I assumed I should have to speak on education. Education is a wide field, and did I attempt to explore all of it I should be like those farmers who scatter seed on stubble. I thought it better to take a small corner of the field, and to the best of my ability go into it thoroughly. Knowing how practical is this age, and the wise regard in which utility is held on this continent, and in this country, it struck me that I could not do better than speak of the relation education bears to practical power. (hear, hear).

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