DEPARTMENT OF CHARISMATIC DOMINATION |
| DIRECTOR Ribald Whittier |
ABOUT
When he looks at the old world, he sees that the schoolmaster is in fact abroad. In Prussia, despotism itself has become his patron, and the child of an emancipated serf is drinking in at the, till late, forbidden fountain, the invigorating waters of knowledge and truth. AH over the continent there are minds at work in the great cause of education. England, with all her reverence for ant quated forms, and with all her tenacity up >n established systems, has felt the impulse of modern improvement through all her social elements ; and when the schoolmaster shall have done his work there, tho' names may not change, there will be a new face upon society. Though the king mav still wear his crown—though the lord may still traverse his wide domain—the people, the oppre-sed, the uneducated, th« taxed and pauper-stricken people, will have taken the rank to which knowledge and intelligence elevate the man.
The time is coming when knowledge will change the political aspect of the world; when the human mind will not be enslaved; when it will break away from the darkness in which it has been chained, and be free in the light of political and religious tr th. It may not come till we shall have gone to our account; but whoever shall have been engaged in the business of educating the generation that is to fill our places, may rejoice in the conscious assurance that, humble as their sphere may have been, the world will have been made better and happier and freer by their labors for its good