Societies for preventing crime; for saving from pauperism; for the reform of prisons and the reformation of prisoners; for peace; for sending missionaries to the heathen; for diffusing the gospel,--all these, where a sound education is given, grow up, in the order of Providence, as an oak grows out of an acorn.
Mann describes how education leads to the emergence of various social improvement societies, likening their growth to that of an oak from an acorn.
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