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" I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. "
The Christian Examiner - Page 373
1864
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Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1861 - 376 pages
...of things which requires them. I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage, without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend on it, that the means of attaining these elementary...
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Speeches and Letters on Reform: With a Preface

Robert Lowe Sherbrooke (Viscount) - Legislative bodies - 1867 - 220 pages
...Government," he says : — " I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person " should participate in the suffrage without being " able to read, write,...add, perform the " common operations of arithmetic. Universal teach" ing must precede universal enfranchisement. No " one, but those in whom an a priori...
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Speeches and letters on reform; with a preface

Robert Lowe (1st visct. Sherbrooke.) - 1867 - 224 pages
...Government," he says : — " I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person " should participate in the suffrage without being " able to read, write,...add, perform the " common operations of arithmetic. Universal teach" ing must precede universal enfranchisement. No " one, but those in whom an a priori...
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Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - Representative government and representation - 1875 - 382 pages
...of things which requires them. I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend on it, that the means of attaining these elementary...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 7

Education - 1877 - 682 pages
...of things which requires them. I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, porform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend...
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of ...

Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1878 - 368 pages
...of things which requires them. [ regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend on it, that the means of attaining these elementary...
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Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin: Being the Reports of ..., Volume 2

Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1878 - 1009 pages
...of things which requires them. I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend on it, that the means of attaining these elementary...
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Education and Heredity: A Study in Sociology

Jean-Marie Guyau - Education - 1891 - 342 pages
...before placing his vote in 1 " I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic." — JS Mill on Representative Government, p. 68. (Tr.) the ballot-box. Spencer says, with more justice,...
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Transactions, Volume 12

Maryland State Bar Association - 1907 - 348 pages
...Representative Government he says : "I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend upon it, that the means of attaining these...
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Modern Political Orations

Leopold Wagner - Great Britain - 1896 - 376 pages
..."Representative Government" he says — " I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write,...add, perform the common operations of arithmetic. Universal teaching must precede universal enfranchisement. No one, but those in whom an <J priori theory...
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