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The Intellectual Torch: Developing an Original, Economical and Expeditious Plan for the Universal Dissemination of Knowledge and Virtue; By Means of ... Use of Distilled Spirits (Classic Reprint)
Jesse Torrey
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-07-14.
ISBN 9781331370505
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Excerpt from The Intellectual Torch: Developing an Original, Economical and Expeditious Plan for the Universal Dissemination of Knowledge and Virtue; By Means of Free Public Libraries; Including Essays on the Use of Distilled Spirits
The Author of this brief desultory publication, begs to be understood that he has not written for the purpose of acquiring literary popularity, but with the hope of popular utility; - regarding the quality of the matter itself, rather than the garb in which it is clothed.
He has long cherished a decided confidence that if the community would appropriate as much wealth to the instruction of the rising generation, as is now devoted to the punishment of crimes, the desired object would be attained, and human misery averted, to a much greater extent.
The plan here proposed, for the general diffusion of knowledge through the medium of free libraries, has been submitted to the consideration of several of the most eminent statesmen and philanthropists in the United States, and received their unanimous and cordial approbation.
Mental improvement is relied on as the most effectual antidote to the prevailing temperate and intemperate indulgence in the use of spirituous liquors.
Having sought with intense diligence, to detect the origin of the various calamities, which afflict Society, I feel urged by a sense of fraternal duty, to promulgate the result of my enquiries and experience; and solicit of my fellow citizens, only such share of their approbation and reward as they may find my humble efforts entitled to.
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