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...have more imagination than judgment; while others, living in the colder regions of the north, have a more severe character, - with such the reasoning is superior to the other faculties; no matter, the course of study is the same for all. All minds are run into the same mould. The germs of all originality are destroyed, every intelligence is measured by the same plummet, special tastes are disregarded, and violence done to peculiar aptitudes as diverse as the leaves of a forest. Instead of drawing out the natural abilities, they are either suppressed or distorted; in a word, they...
That crawls upon a festering heap of mould...
...fair as thing of Grecian mould...
...possible, in view of the ideas which then obtained, that we might have affected the antique, and formed our citizens in the mould of Sparta or of Rome, instead of making French citizens, imbued with the principles of modern civilization...
...Revolution, which had scarcely yet laid out its work, and he arrived just in time to claim his heritage. Seizing upon the ideas then working in the revolutionary furnace, he formed them to his own liking, assimilated them to his own, and finally ran them into his own mould, - a mould of iron, which it has hitherto been found impossible to break. This was the birth of our Civil Code, and national system of education...