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lar education. Let us next take up popular refinement in 

 the arts, manners, social life, and innocent enjoyments, and 

 we shall see what a virtuous and educated republic can 

 really become. 



Besides this, it is the proper duty of the state - - that is, 

 the people - - to do in this way what the reigning power does 

 in a monarchy. If the kings and princes in Germany and 

 the sovereign of England, have made magnificent parks and 

 pleasure gardens and thrown them wide open for the en- 

 joyment of all classes of the people (the latter, after all, 

 having to pay for it), may it not be that our sovereign 

 people will (far more cheaply, as they may) make and sup- 

 port these great and healthful sources of pleasure and re- 

 finement for themselves in America? We believe so; and 

 we confidently wait for the time when public parks, public 

 gardens, public galleries, and tasteful villages shall be among 

 the peculiar features of our happy republic. 



