There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and …
- Lived
- 1803–1876
- Born
- Stockbridge
- Died
- Detroit
- Nationality
- United States
- Known as
- writer, publisher, philosopher
- Era
- 19th century
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The middle class is always a firm champion of equality, when it concerns humbling a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.