The Teacher's Miscellany; A Selection of Articles From the Proceedings of the College of Professional Teachers - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... within the borders of Ohio, as of a vast multitude; yet, within this very State, you may travel a hundred miles, with scarcely the perception of cultivation, and when you come to take an accurate view of it, you find the forest scarcely broken by the dwellings of man. If you pass to Indiana, the native of the woods is there to tell you that the wilderness nas not passed away. On the plains of Illinois it is the same; and if you go beyond the Mississippi, tho traveller may wander five hundred miles within an organized territory, without meeting a cabin. Yet this is all a region of arable land--rich in the resources of nature, yielding whatever adds to physical enjoyment or rational contemplation. It will therefore in time be populous. It will go on as it has done, to speak mathematically, in geometrical progression, doubling from period to period. I am no optimist, no gilder of futurity in the hues of imagination; and it requires no aid from fancy, or even calculation from arithmetic, to know that the shores of the Ohio and the Mississippi will be crowded a century or two hence, with a mass of humanity, dense as that which looks upon the waters of the Rhine and the Ganges. The generations which pass from this to that period, like our own, are preparatory. They are to build the physical as well as moral temple for the habitation of posterity. And where are we? Standing at the corner stone, laying the very foundation. And what shall these intermediate millions do? Shall they not appeal to the full storehouse of nature? And shall they not call science to unlock their doors? They will do so, because--they must. The resources of the land must be developed, before the mass of the people can cultivate the charms of taste, or the refinements of speculative philoso...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... within the borders of Ohio, as of a vast multitude; yet, within this very State, you may travel a hundred miles, with scarcely the perception of cultivation, and when you come to take an accurate view of it, you find the forest scarcely broken by the dwellings of man. If you pass to Indiana, the native of the woods is there to tell you that the wilderness nas not passed away. On the plains of Illinois it is the same; and if you go beyond the Mississippi, tho traveller may wander five hundred miles within an organized territory, without meeting a cabin. Yet this is all a region of arable land--rich in the resources of nature, yielding whatever adds to physical enjoyment or rational contemplation. It will therefore in time be populous. It will go on as it has done, to speak mathematically, in geometrical progression, doubling from period to period. I am no optimist, no gilder of futurity in the hues of imagination; and it requires no aid from fancy, or even calculation from arithmetic, to know that the shores of the Ohio and the Mississippi will be crowded a century or two hence, with a mass of humanity, dense as that which looks upon the waters of the Rhine and the Ganges. The generations which pass from this to that period, like our own, are preparatory. They are to build the physical as well as moral temple for the habitation of posterity. And where are we? Standing at the corner stone, laying the very foundation. And what shall these intermediate millions do? Shall they not appeal to the full storehouse of nature? And shall they not call science to unlock their doors? They will do so, because--they must. The resources of the land must be developed, before the mass of the people can cultivate the charms of taste, or the refinements of speculative philoso...
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