 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1877 - 938 pages
...Constitution was not formed when the celebrated ordinance of 1787 was passed. That ordinance provided that "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged ; " and by the ordinance of 1785 for the survey of the public lands in the Northwestern Territory,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1878 - 1070 pages
...government of the Territory northwest of the river Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " them, that they might see in what words their vote...their hands, no man dissenting. Query П. — Where The Constitution of the United States, after setting forth in the Preamble in words of sublime import... | |
 | Delaware County (Ohio) - 1880 - 832 pages
...Constitution was not formed when the celebrated ordinance of 1787 was passed. That ordinance provided that, " Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged;" and by the ordinance of 1785 for the survey of public lands in the Northwestern Territory, Section... | |
 | Francis Marion Green - Presidents - 1882 - 460 pages
...Ohio is about one-sixth part of the Northwest Territory. The celebrated ordinance of 1787 provided that, "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." The Act admitting Ohio to the sisterhood of States took effect November 20, 1802. The Constitution... | |
 | Cyrus Cort - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 290 pages
...township for the maintenance of public schools, basing their action upon the memorable declaration, that "Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Under this, and subsequent similar grants, an aggregate of not less than 140,000,ooo acres of land... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1884 - 996 pages
...prompting this liberal grant to the public schools is expressed in the declaration of the ordinance that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." From the passage of this act in 1787 to the year 1848 a similar provision for public education, with... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Presidents - 1884 - 900 pages
...the sixteenth section (640 acres) of every township for common school purposes, and wisely declared that " religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be ever encouraged." Fourteen of the States received school lands under this ordinance. The ordinance... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Book covers - 1885 - 420 pages
...every township " for maintaining public schools ; and in making this generous provision, stipulated that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means. of education shall be forever encouraged." In 1848, when Oregon was organized as a Territory (p. 209), the " thirty-sixth section "was also set... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1888 - 632 pages
...press, the right of habeas corpus or of trial by jury, or the equal distribution of estates. The clause that ' religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged,' was not there." These omissions were the New England ideas, which had long before this been engrafted... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - Education - 1889 - 444 pages
...along with which was given the fundamental declaration which" has since been incorporated into almost every State Constitution that " religion, morality,...admission as a State (1802), for the support of a university, and subsequently the sixteenth section in each township toward the maintenance of common... | |
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Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged. 
