Excerpt from Public Education, Vol. 1: An Address; Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, in the Capitol at Lansing, on the Evening of January 28th, 1857 In right principles and worthy designs, in gaining and ripening all virtues - courage bravery, endurance, patience, mod esty, truthfulness, benevolence, charity, the love of God and man. His outer life exhibits his achievements in agriculture, manufactures, commerce, law and government, social organization, Science, Litera ture, and the arts of beauty, institutions of learning religion and charity, in whatever represents the improvements he has made in the world the state of civilization to which he has advanced himself. His inner life shows the moving springs of all that has been achieved in his outer life - the ideal conception, the ruling desire, the thoughtful calculation, the acute invention, the skilful combination, the steady and indomita ble purpose, the observation, the reasoning process, the definite con elusion - ih fine, the working of spiritual faculties wherein lies the power of all improvement in his outer condition. His, outer life shows the objects which minister to his sustenance, his good, his enjoyment. His inner life shows the conscious experience of all good, of all satisfaction, of all enjoyment and delight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.