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"The advantages of learning. A sermon preached at Felstead-church in Essex, August 12th, 1736. On occasion of the annual meeting ... at the free-school there. By Thomas Bernard"
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Date: 1736
"Reason is the great Perfection of human Nature; but, like a Diamond, it is naturally rough, till Education polish it and set it well. Without that, it usually degenerates into Sottishness and Sensuality, as we see in the untaught and uncivilized Part of Mankind."
preview | full record— Bernard, Thomas (1684/5-1755)