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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 128 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: Ignorance
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