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school districts shall, in the years to come, co-operate in happy harmony in cherishing,—each in its respective sphere, the cause of true learning in the western hemisphere. In short, let all well-wishers of their country take something of the same praiseworthy interest in the education of youth as did Thomas Jefferson, and republican institutions may be expected to realize, even more than they do at the present day, a grand ideal of a noble destiny.

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INDEX.

Abolition, 217, 218, 224, 243, 266,
269, 271

Adams, C. F., 135; John, 12, 16, 24,
42, 171, 183, 346, 358; John Q.,
242

Africa, 366

Agriculture, study of, 195

Boulton, Matthew, 58

Books, forbidden, 14; on government,
for N. E., 166
Boutwell, 97

Botany, study of, 199
Brazier, 147

Breckenridge, Gen., 42, 124, 129
Bright, John, 294, 333
Bulls, 7, 137

Alabama, illiteracy in, 302; slave law, Bureau of Education, 31

299

Alliance, Holy, 28, 29

Almamon, Caliph, 149

Alumni, N. C. University, 103

Amendment to Constitution proposed

by Grant, 374

American state papers, 44

Apparatus, philosophical, 160
Arabic education, 150

Arago, 278

"Articles of Association," 215

Astronomy, 153

Austro-Hungary, 364

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Burgoyne, IO

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Cleveland, 370

Clinton, 326

Coke, Gen., 129

Coles, 253, 260, 278, 294, 301, 311
Colet, 139, 141, 199

Columbia College, 46, 173, 184

Columbus, 102, 366

Education, Bureau of, 31; secretary
for, 31; primary, 67; not to be
left to private effort, 113; of poor
in Ken., 119; and duties on luxu-
ries, 164; in slave States, 296 et
seq., a State duty, 312; compulsory,
348

Commission of Inquiry, 5; on Site for Educational, advantages of American

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statesmen, 45; amendment to Con-
stitution, 374, 375

Electricity, 69, 75, 77, 81, 96, 154, 159
Elgin, Earl of, 87
Eliot, Pres., 138
Ellsworth, Miss, 80
Engineers, 104, 112, 194
English Bible, 9

English, language, 363; professors,
203

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Gladstone, 132, 333

Glasgow, 54

Graham, Mme., 17

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Jacobins, 18
Jay, 13, 168, 218, 243

Grammar school in Albemarle Co., 37 Jefferson, on education and civil lib-

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Ideal university, 131

Illiteracy, Guizot on, 33; in Italy, 89;
in Mass., 347; in United States in
1870-1880, 307; in United States,
361

Illiterate nations, 35, 346
Index expurgatorius, Spanish, 14
India, 365

Indians, and English language, 367;
in need of obligatory education, 367;
policy towards, 368, 369
Inquisition, 13, 14, 161

Inventions, 53, 68; money value of,
95, 99

Italian language, 130, 138
Iturbide, 25

erty, 12; to A. von Humboldt, 3;
on New Spain, 4, 7, 8; sketch of
Kosciuszko, 10; to Kosciuszko on
priestcraft in New Spain, 12; to
John Adams on slave trade, 16; to
Lafayette on constitution for France,
21, 22; to Lafayette on bigotry and
self-government, 23; to John Adams
on passive submission to kings and
priests, 25; to Lafayette on free
press, 28; to De Onis on education
as qualification for citizenship, 29;
requests Dupont de Nemours to pre-
pare a plan for national education,
30; enlightenment the true basis for
government, 31; ignorance and free-
dom incompatible, 35; signs bills for
appropriations for universities and
schools, 37; generosity to Central
College, 38; to Virginia Legislature
urging appropriations for the uni-
versity, 38, 39; rector of the uni-
versity, 41; urges the founding of a
university in Washington, 44; his
report on site for State university,
48; on advantages of well directed
education, 105; on the importance
of the sciences, 107; to Wythe on
ignorance and superstition, 113; on
the men needed for a republic, 114;
on primary schools, 124; his coad-
jutors in founding the university,
125; his hopes resting on the cause
of learning, 127; on Cabell's re-
tirement, 129; his fears for the
university, 129; his self-sacrificing
labors for the university, 131; on
broadening the basis of educational
establishments, 132; on electives,
133; on Greek and Latin, 134, 147;
to Brazier on the same, 147; on
mathematics, 149; on sciences, in
his Sixth Message, 156; interest in
chemistry, 157; on study of science
of government, 160; opposition to
public debts, 165; his interest in
study of history, 174 et seq.; to John
Adams on courses of study, 183;
consults T. Cooper on plan for uni-

Jefferson (Continued).

of English, 364; Indian policy op-
posed to reservations, 369; education
for Indians, 370; desire for estab-
lishment of national-school fund,
375

Jerome of Prague, 104
Jeronimites, 220
Jesuits, 19, 123
Johnson, 86
Jullien, 302
Jury system, 348

Kames, 168

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Kansas, progress of, 328
Kentucky, 119, 124; school system,
115; illiteracy in, 306
Kepler, 154

King, Rufus, 246
King's College, see Columbia
Knox, 54

Kosciuszko, 10, 11, 173

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versity, 184; consults Pictet on the
same, 185; his plan for transporting
the Univ. of Geneva to Virginia,
186; to Priestley on scheme for uni-
versity, 187; on technical instruc-
tion, 191, 193; on botany, 199; on
study of languages, 201; on English,
202; on physical culture, 203; wishes
to get English professors, 203; to
Roscoe on the same, 205; to Eve-
lyn Denizon, 207; Dunglison on,
208; unsectarian, 210; abhorrence
for slavery, 213; his essay on the
"Rights of Englishmen," 213-pro-
scribed, 214; draught of Declara-
tion, 214; on the king of England,
214; on importation of slaves, 216;
plan for educating the colored peo-
ple, 223; entertains Melbourn at
Monticello, 224; emancipation bill
of 1767, 243; inherits but never
buys slaves, 243; bill to exclude
slaves from Western territory, 244—
its failure, 244; on abolition in Vir-
ginia, 245; on colony at Muskin-
gum, 247; on influence of slavery,
249, 252; Coles to Jefferson, 255;
Jefferson to Coles, 256; to Banna-
ker, 267; to Holmes, 268; to Miss
Wright on abolition, 269; quoted
by Lincoln, 282; his provision for
education of colored people, 301;
to Washington on national instruc-
tion, 312; on local government in
N. E., 319; on schools and local
government, 320; and the Literary
Fund, 328; to Wyche on value of
a library as educator, 331; offers his
own library to government, 336; re-
port of 1816 on public instruction,
343; proposes gratuitous instruction,
344; educational bill of 1817, 348;
on national education, 351; on de-
voting a portion of national revenue
to education, 352; suggests educa-
tional amendment to Constitution,
353; signs bills for universities in
Ohio and Tenn., 353; Jefferson
College, 354; signs bill for support
of common schools, 355; argues for
educational amendment in Va. con-
stitution, 358; to Monroe on spread McClellan, G. B., 286

Lafayette, 14, 16, 18, 21; Mme., 19
Las Casas, 219
Lamps, see petroleum
Latent heat, 55
Lawyers, 104, 112

Lewis, S. S., 120
Leland's "Jack Nips," 226

Libraries, 193, 206, 329, 331; Con-
gress, 336
Lieber, 162
Lima, 13
Linacre, 139

Lincoln, 249, 278, 281, 290, 291 ;
on reading the Bible, 310
Lincoln, Earl of, 87
Local government in N. E., 319, 360
Livingston, E., 209
Locomotive, Watts', 67, 105
Louisiana, purchase of, 30; slave law,
299; illiteracy in, 303; colored
population, 362

Louis XVI., 18; XVIII., 20
Louis Philippe, 21
Lukens, 75
Luther, 104, 145

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