...prompting this liberal grant to the public schools is expressed in the declaration of the ordinance that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means of education shall be forever encouraged." From the passage of this act in 1787 to the year 1848 a similar provision for public education, with one...

...set apart the sixteenth section (640 acres) of every township for common school purposes, and wisely declared that " religion, morality and knowledge being...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be ever encouraged." Fourteen of the States received school lands under this ordinance. The ordinance...

...every township " for maintaining public schools ; and in making this generous provision, stipulated that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means. of education shall be forever encouraged." In 1848, when Oregon was organized as a Territory (p. 209), the " thirty-sixth section "was also set...

...press, the right of habeas corpus or of trial by jury, or the equal distribution of estates. The clause that ' religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged,' was not there." These omissions were the New England ideas, which had long before this been engrafted...

...a trifle obscure in their statements of the importance of popular education. The ordinance of 1787 declared that "religion, morality and knowledge being...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Were the schools so to be forever encouraged to instruct in religion and morality as well as in knowledge?...

...the fundamental declaration which" has since been incorporated into almost every State Constitution that " religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Ohio, the first State admitted to the Union from this Territory, received three townships ; one as...

...the fundamental declaration which has since been incorporated into aTiflosF every State Constitution that " religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Ohio, the first State admitted to the Union from this Territory, received three townships ; one as...

...passed, and became the famous Ordinance for the Government of the Northwest Territory. The third article declared that " Religion, morality and knowledge being...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." During this time the proposals of the Ohio Company to purchase lands were being considered by Congress,...

...west of the river Ohio, in 1 787. They declared by the third article of that celebrated instrument, that " Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." At the same time, whilst authorizing the Treasury to contract for the sale of the western lands, they...

...Freedom of worship and belief. 2. The safe and reasonable execution of the law. 3. Schools — declaring that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged" ; and the just and considerate treatment of Indians. 4. The levying of taxes. 5. The final division...