"To you, gentlemen members of the Hampden Sidney Institute, I believe Virginia is indebted for the first example of a voluntary association on a large scale, to promote education—an example which I most earnestly hope will be zealously followed in every part of our widely extended territory, until the great, the vital object, which you so laudably aim to accomplish, shall be fully realized to the utmost extent of your wishes."
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James M. Garnett, Address on the Subject of Literary Assocations to Promote Education, Delivered Before the Institute of Education at Hampden-Sidney College" (1835), Richmond: printed by Thomas W. White
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