| Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1854 - 972 pages
...situated farther from a common centre, and cannot, of course, have equal advantages with some others, will be more likely to acquiesce, in a good spirit, in the democratic principle of the greatest f> ood to the greatest number. The Hon. Horace Mann condemns the District System, as one of the most... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1874 - 430 pages
...co-operation of parents which the success of the school demands, is interrupted and taken from it. It may not be possible under any system to locate...for all sections. The present miserable condition of very many of the school buildings shows the inadequacy of the district, or at least, a palpable neglect... | |
| American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical engineering - 1885 - 984 pages
...pulling power of a runaway team arrested by the roots of a tree. Gauging the value of the thing on the democratic principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, the inventors .of agricultural machinery will have few rivals. This statement may be questioned, but in... | |
| Frederick Remsen Hutton - 1915 - 586 pages
...patent is worth, rather than backward to the brain work of its author. Gaging the value of the thing on the democratic principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, the inventors of agricultural machinery will have few rivals. . . . "May the time come when we shall have... | |
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