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Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan advocates for education as a means to uplift the lower classes and empower them with knowledge of their rights.
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If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.