...constitution "to encourage private societies and publick institutions [offering] rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce,...manufactures, and a natural history of the country." Following this logic, the general court would incorporate several other similar groups before passing,...

...schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce,...benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings, sincerity, good humor, and all social affections...

...private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of [education] ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity...benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings, sincerity, good humour, and all social affections,...

...shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth. . . to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity...and general benevolence, public and private charity. . . and all social affections, and generous sentiments among [sic] the people."11 Pennsylvania (1776),...

...learned societies. By "Literature &c." Adams meant to exclude no productive activity, and he enumerated "agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures and a natural history of the country." While they were at it, the legislators and magistrates ought also to lend a hand to virtue: to "countenance...

...schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce,...benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections,...

...in the towns, to encourage private societies and public institutions, by rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history ot the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public...

...Cambridge (Harvard), and schools in the towns; also the state was to provide "rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce,...trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country."81 Years later he wrote Benjamin Waterhouse that he expected this section to be attacked on...

..."it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity...benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections,...