THE

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EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY,

A Journal of School and Home Education.

SEPTEMBER, 1860.

Old Series Vol. 8, No 9.

New Series, Vol. 1, No. 9.

CHARACTER AND SERVICES OF HORACE MANN.

BY WILLIAM T. COGGESHALL.

AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, AT NEWARK, JULY 5, 1860.

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When the Ohio Teachers' Association convened at Dayton, in July, 1859, among the prominent educators whose presence gave interest and character to its deliberations, was Horace Mann. several previous meetings he had manifested lively interest in the purposes of this Association, had taken an influential part in its proceedings, and then and there his eloquent voice was heard for the last time in public appeal for the cause, of which, in a greater degree than any other man, he was the recognised Apostle. No one who looked then upon his tall, erect, spare form, his towering brow, over which thin grey hair was scrupulously parted—no one who observed the vivid expression of his clear, grey eye, and with emphatic distinctness of utterance, in a voice penetrating but musical, heard him utter a series of antithetic sentences, in which culpable indifference to, or praiseworthy zeal for, popular education were immpressively characterised, supposed that in a few days his personal career on earth would be ended.

Few men, comparatively, since Adam left the Garden of Eden to labor, have died from excess of self-imposed tasks. Horace

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