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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.
Benjamin Rush
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Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.
Benjamin Rush -
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
Benjamin Rush -
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
Benjamin Rush -
The business of education has layed the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.
Benjamin Rush -
I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.
Benjamin Rush -
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
Benjamin Rush
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush -
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
Benjamin Rush -
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
Benjamin Rush -
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
Benjamin Rush -
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush -
Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
Benjamin Rush
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
Benjamin Rush -
As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
Benjamin Rush -
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
Benjamin Rush -
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
Benjamin Rush