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Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush is known as one of the great scientists of early America. He not only signed the Declaration of Independence, but also advocated that the Bible be used in the Public Schools as the surest textbook on moral training. He established the first free medical clinic and later helped found the first American anti-slavery society. Science, government and moral/religious training must be cooperative in nature, in his perspective. “The only foundation for …a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and the life of all republican governments.”
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“I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as perfectly satisfied that the Union of the United States in its form and adoption is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.” |
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