. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. epeat and republish your grateful acceptanceof it; and to dedicate this commodious and beautiful structure to itsfaithful and permanent administiation. You open to-day for Danvers—its inhabitants of this time, and all its successions—the Lyceum of knowl-edge and morality. Under this dedication it shall stand while Massa-chusetts shall stand. This edifice will crumble, certainly, to be replacedwith another : this generation of the first recipients of the gift—theexcellent giver himself—will soon pass away : but while our social andcivil
. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. epeat and republish your grateful acceptanceof it; and to dedicate this commodious and beautiful structure to itsfaithful and permanent administiation. You open to-day for Danvers—its inhabitants of this time, and all its successions—the Lyceum of knowl-edge and morality. Under this dedication it shall stand while Massa-chusetts shall stand. This edifice will crumble, certainly, to be replacedwith another : this generation of the first recipients of the gift—theexcellent giver himself—will soon pass away : but while our social andcivil system shall endure ; while law shall be administered ; while thesentiments of justice, gratitude, and honor, shall beat in one heart onyour territory, the charity is immortal. For every one among you it is set open equally. No fear that thereligious opinions he holds sacred will be assailed, or the politics hecultivates insulted, will keep back any from his share of the diffusivegood. Other places and other occasions you reserve for dissent and. 169 disputation, and struggle for mastery, and the sharp competitions of here shall be peace and reconciliation. Within these walls, theknowledge and the morality, which are of no creed and no party;which are graceful and profitable for all alike—of every creed andevery party; which are true and real to every mind, as mind, and fromthe nature of mind ; and to every conscience as conscience, and fromthe nature of conscience; and which are the same thing, therefore, inevery brain and every heart—this alone—knowledge and morality,broad, free, identical as humanity itself—is to be inculcated here. Happy and privileged the community, beyond the measure of NewEngland privilege even, for whom such high educational instrumental-ities are thus munificently provided, and made perpetual! Happyespecially, if they shall rouse themselves to improve them to their ut-most capacity—if they shall feel that they are summoned b
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