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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“I consider it is possible to convert men into republican machines.”
Essays on Education in a Republic, Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
Rush continues that citizens must be fitted by education to perform their parts in the great machine of the government of the state.
Citation: "I consider it is possible to convert men into republican machines." — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
