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EDUCATION IN New JERsEY.-If New Jersey


furnishes such material as the Address Of the Ed
ucaton Convention Committee indicates that the
State possesses, richly is it entitled to all the
cultivation which education can impart We ex-
tract the following.-Star.


''We utterly repudiate, as unworthy, not of free
men only, but of men, the narrow notion, that
there is to be an education for the poor, as SUCH
Has God provided for the poor a coarser earth, a
thinner air, paler sky? Does not the glorious
sun pour down his golden flood as cheerily upon
the poor mans hovel as upon the rich mans
palace! Have not the cotter's children as keen
a sense of all the freshness, verdure, fragrance,
melody and beauty, of luxuriant nature, as the
pale sons of kings! Or is it on the mind, that
God has stamped the imprint of baser birth, so
that the poor mans child knows, with an nborn
certainty that his lot is to crawl, not climb 1t is
not SO. God has not done it. Man cannot do


it. Mind is immortal Mind is imperial 1t
bears no mark of high-of low.-of rich or poor.
1t heeds no bound Of time or place, or rank or
circumstance. 1t asks but freedom. 1t requires
but light. 1t is heaven born, and it aspires to
heaven. Weakness does not enfeeble it. Pow
erty cannot repress it. Difficulties do but stmu-
late It's vigor And the poor tallow-chandler's
son, that sits up all the night to read the book
which an apprentice lends him, lest the masters
eye should miss it in the morning, shall stand and
treat with kings shall bind the lightning with
hempen cord, and bring it harmless from the skies
The Common School is common, not as inferior,
not as the school for poor mems children, but as
the light and air are common. 1t ought TO be the
best school, because it is the first school; and in
all good works the beginning is one half. Who
does not know the value to community of a
plentiful supply of the pure element of water!
And infinitely more than this is the Common
School, for it is the fountain at which the mind
drinks, and is refreshed and strengthened for its
career of usefulness and glory"