Speech #540118158

I tell my friends. as I said before. that education is a broad and comprehensive term. and does -not mean book learning only. I could refer the gentleman to statistics in theLibrary. and prove to him that in communities where persons wholly illiterate predominate- in - numbers -the -relati~e- proportion of criminals is smaller than in more educated communities. 1897.An eminent writer has said that culture is the object of education. but culture does not mean book learning. culture. he says. means the attaining of a proper conception and faith with reference to God and a proper apprehension of the relative duties of man to man. I do not think I need remind the American people of the service which immigration has done for this country. Nor need I remind them of the service that it has done in the attainment and preservation of the liberty which has been so great a power in the development of its destiny. I need not point my friend from South Carolina to the field of Camden. where the blood of De Kalb fertilizes the soil.