"There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and depth what it gains in surface."
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Orestes Brownson
1803 – 1876
Orestes Brownson (1803–1876) was an American intellectual, activist, preacher, labor organizer, and writer.
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