PERSONAL SIMPLICITY AtfD HIS WORK. 553 



schools, however excellent, but by enforced habits of read 

 ing, thought, and reflection in connection with the pursuits 

 in after life, and if not so acquired, it is never acquired 

 at all.&quot; 



Such were the sentiments, and such the massive logic, of 

 the man who was opposed by many politicians of both parties, 

 whose interest it is to keep the masses ignorant ; opposed by 

 that class of scholiasts who conceive that high education is 

 only for the few aristocrats of mere wealth; opposed, also, 

 by various classes of citizens, including even farmers and 

 mechanics, who believed his scheme of education Utopian. 

 In Illinois, bigotry and mismanagement have sadly squan 

 dered the means and dwarfed the fruit of the industrial 

 education scheme ; but we have the satisfaction of seeing in 

 some of the other States, and especially in the neighboring 

 ones of Michigan and Iowa, this beneficent system grow 

 ing and developing year by year towards the high standard 

 of its projectors ideal hopes. 



PERSONAL SIMPLICITY, AND THE GREATNESS OF HIS 



WORK. 



The early life of Professor Turner was one of poverty and 

 privation. Thus he early learned the value of economy. In 

 later life he continued to practice a prudent economy from 

 choice. But economy with his nature did not carry mean 

 ness. He is generous and noble in his instructions. Believ 

 ing extravagance the great and growing folly of his country 

 men, he continues to this day, although in the possession of 

 an ample fortune, to practice the utmost simplicity in his 

 dress consistent with the proper usages of society. 



Desiring no public position or office or power, except the 

 power he has exercised for good in his day and generation; 

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