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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“The knowledge of things always preceeds the knowledge of words.”
Essays on Education in a Republic, Observations upon the Study of the Latin and Greek Languages, proposition IV (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
One of the general propositions on which Rush rests his case against beginning education with Latin and Greek. The spelling preceeds is the 1798 printing's.
Citation: "The knowledge of things always preceeds the knowledge of words." — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, Observations upon the Study of the Latin and Greek Languages, proposition IV (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
