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Vote: | Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. |
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Vote: | By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. |
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Vote: | Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. |
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Vote: | Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. |
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George Bancroft (October 3, 1800–January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis (1845). Among his best-known writings is the massive series History of the United States.
Early life and education His family had been in America since 1632, and his father, Aaron Bancroft, was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, clergyman and author. George was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, at Harvard University, at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied Plato with Heeren, New Testament Greek with Eichhorn and natural science with Blumenbach. Having entered Harvard College at thirteen years of age, he had attained much knowledge by 1822.
Bancroft concluded his years of preparation by a European tour, in the course of which he received kind attention from almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art; among others, from Goethe, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Byron, Niebuhr, Bunsen, Savigny, Cousin, Constant and Manzoni.
Bancroft’s father was a Unitarian, and he had devoted his son to the work of the ministry; but the young man's first experiments at preaching, shortly after his return from Europe in 1822, were unsatisfactory, the theological teaching of the time having substituted criticism and literature for faith.
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