“Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.”

— Mark Hopkins (educator)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 140.

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American educationalist and theologian 1802–1887

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