“In contemplating the political institutions of the United States. I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.
I am, dear sir, your sincere friend
Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia, March 10, 1791″
A Defence of the use of The Bible as a School Book
Marc Alan Urbach 