Newberry Library - Opinion de G.O. Rampillon sur les théâtres : séance du 19 germinal an 6

User-Contributed Translation otherwise, they rely on your energy to remind them of this useful as well as necessary objective.
The speakers who have preceded me in this forum exempt me from demonstrating to you the intimate connection that exists between the principles implemented at the theater and those on which public education should be based.
But, it cannot be stressed enough, you will not attain the objective that you have set for yourself, except by making genius and talents work together to improve public and private mores, as well as to perfect education, which must shape them.
Representatives of the People, you all know the price of this fertile seed, know how to seize it; nurture it, & soon, from its development, there will arise those magnanimous virtues, which have carried on to us the memory of the peoples who have preceded us in the noble and generous path to liberty.
Allow me to refer you to the former inhabitants of Asia, who were the first teachers of the world. I will tell you that the Egyptians were trained at their school; I will describe to you the Greeks harvesting, in remote areas, the seed of science and the arts, which they brought to such perfection in the superb monuments that they dedicated to them: they transmitted them to the Romans, these precious riches; &, from this point of view, I consider the latter to be emulators rather than conquerors of a nation which had made, for the entire globe, the most beautiful and the most enduring of conquests.
Everyone of good judgment knows that it was not through “might makes right” that the Greeks succeeded in making other peoples adopt their mores, customs, and institutions. They employed a much more infallible method; they attacked them with the weapon of persuasion; they showed them their philosophers, teaching morality and love for the fatherland; they presented them with the image of a robust youth, engaged in all the exercises

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