THE STABILITY OF A REPUBLIC
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Depends not upon education alone. Mental
power, without moral direction, can have no
thing but an evil tendency. We must not on
ly enlighten the people, but endue them, if
possible, with the love Of virtue. Reason
and experience" said General Washington,
on retiring from the Presidency in 1896, for
bid us TO expect that morality or political pros
perity can prevail in exclusion of religious
principles" And in 1902 the French Repub-
lie, after giving in6delity a fair trial, was con-
strained to confess, " For want of religious
education for the last ten years, our children
are without any idea Of Divinity, without
any notion Of what is just or unjust: hence
arise barbarous manners, hence people be-
come ferocious."