“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.”
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Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
This book is a compilation of lectures and speeches that cover a range of public topics. It includes three specific addresses given on different public occasions and a detailed reply to the charges leveled against French reformers during the significant year of 1789. more
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Frances Wright
Frances Wright was an American writer and social reformer, born on September 6, 1795, and died on December 13, 1852. She is known for her advocacy of women's rights, abolition of slavery, and socialist ideas. more
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