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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of christianity, by means of the bible”
Essays on Education in a Republic, A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
From the closing reflections of the letter to Belknap, where Rush laments that the states spend more on punishing crimes than on preventing them.
Citation: "We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of christianity, by means of the bible" — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q8)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
