Author: American Institute of Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Introductory Discourse, and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction
Author: American Institute of Instruction
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Introductory Discourse and Lectures Delivered in Boston Before the Convention of Teachers, and Other Friends of Education Assembled to Form the American Institute of Instruction, August, 1930 ...
Author: American Institute of Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at the Opening of Their Third Course of Lectures, August 23, 1832 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Francis Calley Gray
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282664787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Excerpt from Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at the Opening of Their Third Course of Lectures, August 23, 1832 This bold spirit of inquiry, which, when rightly directed, pro duces inestimable good, and, like every other power entrusted to man, when abused, proportionate evil; is, at this time, directed to no subject more generally or more eagerly, than to our established systems of education. The attempts which have been made, in modern times, to bring about beneficial and permanent revolutions in the political and civil organization of nations, to dissolve society into its elements and to reconstruct it on a better model, have been attended with so much suffering and so little success, as to convince reflecting men in general, that a thorough reform in the whole structure of any community is not likely to be peacefully and completely accomplished, by the generation, in which it is first un dertaken, and that the mass of those, who have been trained up with exclusive reference to one state of society, are hardly capable of administering or enjoying one totally different; and hence the immovement of education has come to be regarded by many as the first certain and safe step to all radical and permanent improvements in the condition of men. Here it is, that he must take his stand, who seeks at the present day to move the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282664787
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Excerpt from Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at the Opening of Their Third Course of Lectures, August 23, 1832 This bold spirit of inquiry, which, when rightly directed, pro duces inestimable good, and, like every other power entrusted to man, when abused, proportionate evil; is, at this time, directed to no subject more generally or more eagerly, than to our established systems of education. The attempts which have been made, in modern times, to bring about beneficial and permanent revolutions in the political and civil organization of nations, to dissolve society into its elements and to reconstruct it on a better model, have been attended with so much suffering and so little success, as to convince reflecting men in general, that a thorough reform in the whole structure of any community is not likely to be peacefully and completely accomplished, by the generation, in which it is first un dertaken, and that the mass of those, who have been trained up with exclusive reference to one state of society, are hardly capable of administering or enjoying one totally different; and hence the immovement of education has come to be regarded by many as the first certain and safe step to all radical and permanent improvements in the condition of men. Here it is, that he must take his stand, who seeks at the present day to move the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Introductory Discourse and Lectures
Author: American Institute of Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Languages : en
Pages : 684
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Athenæum
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Pages : 474
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Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon
Author: Stewart Davenport
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226137082
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
What did Protestants in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about? The Bible told antebellum Christians that they could not serve both God and mammon, but in the midst of the market revolution most of them simultaneously held on to their faith while working furiously to make a place for themselves in a changing economic landscape. In Friends of the Unrighteous Mammom, Stewart Davenport explores this paradoxical partnership of transcendent religious values and earthly, pragmatic objectives, ultimately concluding that religious and ethical commitments, rather than political or social forces, shaped responses to market capitalism in the northern states in the antebellum period. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Davenport identifies three distinct Christian responses to market capitalism: assurance from clerical economists who believed in the righteousness of economic development; opposition from contrarians who resisted the changes around them; and adaptation by the pastoral moralists who modified their faith to meet the ethical challenges of the changing economy. Delving into the minds of antebellum Christians as they considered themselves, their God, and their developing American economy, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon is an ambitious intellectual history of an important development in American religious and economic life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226137082
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
What did Protestants in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about? The Bible told antebellum Christians that they could not serve both God and mammon, but in the midst of the market revolution most of them simultaneously held on to their faith while working furiously to make a place for themselves in a changing economic landscape. In Friends of the Unrighteous Mammom, Stewart Davenport explores this paradoxical partnership of transcendent religious values and earthly, pragmatic objectives, ultimately concluding that religious and ethical commitments, rather than political or social forces, shaped responses to market capitalism in the northern states in the antebellum period. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Davenport identifies three distinct Christian responses to market capitalism: assurance from clerical economists who believed in the righteousness of economic development; opposition from contrarians who resisted the changes around them; and adaptation by the pastoral moralists who modified their faith to meet the ethical challenges of the changing economy. Delving into the minds of antebellum Christians as they considered themselves, their God, and their developing American economy, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon is an ambitious intellectual history of an important development in American religious and economic life.
The Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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