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class merely. But in a republic, the way to whose highest 

 places of power and trust is open to any citizen who has the 

 intellectual energy or the mere self-assurance to enter, and 

 who furthermore possesses the tact essential to political man- 

 agement, or only the means to command the tact of others, 

 there is no security short of universal education. 



Nor is this enough, if understood in the ordinary sense. 

 The rudimentary education of the whole people is not suffi- 

 cient. The elementary principles of government and of a 

 sound social and political economy must also be widely under- 

 stood and appreciated ; and in qwqtj community the number 

 must not be few of them who have made statesmanship a 

 profound study. 



Stopping short of the most ample provision for all these 

 guaranties, we have left our free institutions in peril, and are 

 justly obnoxious to the censure of mankind. 



