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The diffusion of useful knowledge among the people is another of the great duties of a paternal government. This is especially true of all popular governments but most of all our own. There are branches of human knowledge for which [a government] need not ? provide. There is another branch for which it cannot. The higher departments of Science will be [sufficiently] taught in the schools; If Religion will [continue] to be taught in the church. But there are other branches of knowledge which come ? home to the business and bosoms of men, [and] conducing to their individual beliefs, and social well-being; and of such man if ?, and universal necessity, - that their general diffusion should be made an affair of government. We have millions of families destroying their sales menu from their industry, who have much to learn which would conduce to its success; and millions of voters to who whom are cou- -pled the destinies of their country, who would exercise their right of suffrage with better discretion, if they were better informed. If this be true of our native population, it is to a much greater extent tre of the emigrants from foreign lands.