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CHAPTER XI. 



Education: — Preliminary remarks; Importance of general educatiori— - 

 Views of the colonists — Mennonitcs' views of education — Scotch-IrisU 

 settlers, made at first little preparation^ &c. till 1798 — First schools in the 

 town of Lancaster — Lutheran and German Reformed churches have 

 schools under their auspices — Rev. M. Schlatter indefatigable in his efforts to 

 establish schools — Extract from Coetuale proceedings of 1760 — Trustees 

 and managers of public schools — Germans patriotic, modest and unas- 

 suming, <S:c. — Ludwig Hacker estabhshes a Sabbath school at Ephrata — 

 German classical school at Ephrata — Academy at Ephrata — Acaxlemy at 

 Litiz — Select Academy at Jjancastcr — Franklin college, &c. — Pri\ate 

 schools and acadamies in various sections of the county — An act for the 

 education of children in the borough of Lcneaster — The Mechanics' So- 

 ciety —Classical Academy ; Lancaster County Ar ademy ; Classical Acad- 

 emies in the county — Seminaries; Cijimmon Schools; Sabbath Schools, 

 Lyceums, &c. 



The permanency of all R.epiiblics, depends upon the en- 

 lightenment of the people. As education is therefore encour- 

 aged or neglected, so will their foundations be sure and stable, 

 or loose and unsettled ; and it is difficult to say, whether in 

 their moral relations or political privileges, this truth is most 

 self-evident. The certainty, stability and perpetuity of a re- 

 publican government, with all its vast machinery of offices and 

 officers, such as the efficient administration of the government 

 by the Executive, the judicious and wholesome exercise of its 

 powers by the Legislature, the prompt and energetic adminis- 

 tration of justice by faithful Judges, and above all, the just de- 

 termination of the rights of parties by impartial Jurors, must 

 depend alone upon the people. There is no other foundation 

 upon which the structure can rest. This constitutes its chief 

 excellence, its greatest strengih. 



In a government then such as ours, based as it is upon ac- 

 knowledged democratic principles, in the theory and practice 

 of which, it is admitted that the people are the source of all 

 power, making and unmaking at stated intervals all their func- 

 tionaries, from the Chief magistrate of the nation, down to tUe 



