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To: goldworldnet who wrote (244280)	4/2/2008 9:05:57 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793620

We were truly Blessed to have George Washington. There are so many sentences in that Farewell, that we could study them for a long time, and wonder that he captured so many things so precisely. This was one that lept off the page to me..... Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. We have a long way to go still, it appears. *** The link below also has some excellent pictures of places of the American Revolution, including the Tavern where George Washington gave his Farwell to his Troops after the Revolutionary War. revolutionaryday.com