Source: Protection or Free Trade? (1886), Ch. 6
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Five, The Politics Of International Trade, p. 171
“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791).
“The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.”
Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p. vi.
“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Diary (15 May 1878)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Context: General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
“The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.”
No. 13
1790s, Discourses on Davila (1790)
Context: The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused. Newspapers, magazines, and circulating libraries have made mankind wiser. Titles and distinctions, ranks and orders, parade and ceremony, are all going out of fashion.
This is roundly and frequently asserted in the streets, and sometimes on theatres of higher rank. Some truth there is in it; and if the opportunity were temperately improved, to the reformation of abuses, the rectification of errors, and the dissipation of pernicious prejudices, a great advantage it might be. But, on the other hand, false inferences may be drawn from it, which may make mankind wish for the age of dragons, giants, and fairies.
“To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge.”
"The Over-Sky Sign," p. 5
The Sign and Its Children (2000)
