Alter | 60 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Politiker, Schriftsteller, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler |
Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 03. Juni 1804 |
Geburtsort | Dunford, Heyshott, Sussex, England |
Todesdatum | Sonntag, 02. April 1865 |
Todesort | London |
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Beschreibung | Richard Cobden war ein britischer Unternehmer und die führende Figur des Manchesterliberalismus und der Freihandelsbewegung. |
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.
