[28] In a lecture before the American Institute of Instruction, on the Religious Element in Education.
[29] John Quincy Adams, during his long and eventful life, was accustomed to read daily portions of the Scriptures in several languages.
[30] Common schools have since been organized in both of those counties.
[31] Quoted from an address delivered in Boston by Edward Everett.
[32] See Appendix to Dick's Improvement of Society, p. 338.
[33] In the Duchy of Lorraine, nine hundred females were delivered over to the flames for being witches, by one inquisitor alone. Under this accusation, it is reckoned that upward of thirty thousand women have perished by the hands of the Inquisition.—Quoted by Dr. Dick from "Inquisition Unmasked."
[34] Dr. Dick, to whom I have frequently referred, and whose writings I have freely consulted, expresses in a note a sentiment in which I fully concur. "It would be unfair," says he, "to infer, from any expression here used, that the author denies the possibility of supernatural visions and appearances. We are assured from the records of sacred history that beings of an order superior to the human race have 'at sundry times and in divers manners' made their appearance to men. But there is the most marked difference between vulgar apparitions and the celestial messengers to which the records of revelation refer. They appeared not to old women and clowns, but to patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. They appeared not to frighten the timid and to create unnecessary alarm, but to declare 'tidings of great joy.' They appeared not to reveal such paltry secrets as the place where a pot of gold or silver is concealed, or where a lost ring may be found, but to communicate intelligence worthy of a God to reveal, and of the utmost importance for man to receive. In these and many other respects, there is the most striking contrast between popular ghosts and the supernatural communications and appearances recorded in Scripture."
[35] In two large volumes, published by Greeley and McElrath, New York.
[36] See Lectures on Science and Art, vol. i., p. 315.
[37] Ibid., p. 419-420.