Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . WEBSTER HIOHSCHOOL BUILDING, RUSHVILLE, 1 f j » ^BiiiPv S, f§J% BIB 1 WASHINGTON SCHOOL,RUSHVILLE, ILL. HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 713 amble of the first school law of 1S25, they areset forth most lucidly as follows: To enjoy our rights and liberties, we mustunderstand them ; their security and protectionought to be the first object of a free people; andit is a well established fact that no nation hascontinued long in the enjoyment of civil andpolitical freedom, which was not both virtuousand enlightened; and believing that the advance-ment of liter
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . WEBSTER HIOHSCHOOL BUILDING, RUSHVILLE, 1 f j » ^BiiiPv S, f§J% BIB 1 WASHINGTON SCHOOL,RUSHVILLE, ILL. HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 713 amble of the first school law of 1S25, they areset forth most lucidly as follows: To enjoy our rights and liberties, we mustunderstand them ; their security and protectionought to be the first object of a free people; andit is a well established fact that no nation hascontinued long in the enjoyment of civil andpolitical freedom, which was not both virtuousand enlightened; and believing that the advance-ment of literature always has been, and everwill be, the means of developing more fully therights of man, that the mind of every citizen ina republic is the common property of society,and constitutes the basis of its strength andhappiness ; it is, therefore, considered the pecu-liar duty of a free government like ours to en-courage and extend the improvement and culti-vation of the intellectual energies of the whole;therefore, a common school, or schools, shall beestablished in each county
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