326 Memorial of George Brown Goode. 



able persons to collect and transmit them to our country. It is in this manner that the 

 northern nations of Eiirope have imported so much knowledge from their southern 

 neighbors, that the history of the agriculture, manufactures, commerce, revenues, 

 and military art of one of these nations will soon be alike applicable to all of them. 



Besides sending four young men abroad to collect and transmit knowledge for the 

 benefit of our country, two young men of suitable capacities should be employed at 

 the publick expense in exploring the vegetable, mineral, and animal productions of 

 our country, in procuring histories and samples of each of them, and in transmitting 

 them to the professor of natural history. It is in consequence of the discoveries 

 made by young gentlemen employed for these purposes, that Sweden, Denmark, and 

 Russia have extended their manufactures and connnerce, so as to rival in both the 

 oldest nations in Europe. 



Let the Congress allow a liberal salary to the Principal of this University. Let it 

 be his business to govern the students, and to inspire them by his conversation, and 

 by occasional publick discourses, with federal and patriotick sentiments. Let this 

 Principal be a man of extensive education, liberal manners, and dignified deportment. 



Let the Professors of each of the branches that have been mentioned, have a mod- 

 erate salar}'^ of 150 or 200 poiinds a year, and let them depend upon the number of 

 their pupils to suppl}^ the deficiency of their maintenance from their salaries. Let 

 each pupil pay for each course of lectures two or three guineas. 



Let the degrees conferred in this University receive a new name, that shall desig- 

 nate the design of an ediication for civil and publick life. Should this plan of a 

 federal University, or one like it be adopted, then will begin the golden age of the 

 United States. While the business of education in Europe, consists in lectures upon 

 the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum; or in dispute about Hebrew 

 points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth 

 of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase 

 the convenience of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote popula- 

 tion, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestick, social, and political 

 happiness. 



Let it not be said, "that this is not the time for such a literary and political estab- 

 lishment. Let us first restore publick credit, b}' funding or paying our debts — let 

 us regulate our militia — let us build a navy — and let us protect and extend our com- 

 merce. After this, we shall have leisure and money to establish a University for the 

 purposes that have been mentioned. ' ' This is false reasoning. "We shall never restore 

 publick credit— regulate our militia — build a navy — or revive our commerce, until we 

 remove the ignorance and prejudices, and change the habits of our citizens, and this 

 can never be done until we inspire them with federal principles, which can only be 

 effected by our young men meeting and spending two or three years together in a 

 national University, and afterwards disseminating their knowledge and principles 

 through every county, town, and village of the United States. Until this is done — 

 Senators and Representatives of the United States, yoit will undertake to make 

 bricks without straw. Your supposed union in Congress will be a rope of sand. 

 The inhabitants of Massachusetts began the business of government by establishing 

 the University of Cambridge, and the wisest kings in Europe have always found 

 their literary institutions the surest means of establishing their power, as well as of 

 promoting the prosperity of their people. 



These hints for establishing the Constitution and happiness of the United States 

 upon a permanent foundation, are sulnnitted to the friends of the federal govern- 

 ment, in each of the States, by a private citizen of pe;nnsyi.ania. 



