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 study life, not logic, and have the world for correspondents.

greatest number of universities have ever been founded in times of the greatest ignorance.

improvements in learning, are seldom adopted in colleges, until admitted every where else. And this is right; we should always be cautious of teaching the rising generation uncertainties for truth.

the professors in universities have been too frequently found to oppose the advancement of learning; yet when once established, they are the properest persons to diffuse it.