The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own i… - John Lancaster Spalding

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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

John Lancaster Spalding

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John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

It is the business of the teacher … to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

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