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 Noah
Webster
had served
as a
soldier in
the
Revolutionary
War; was
elected to
the
Connecticut
General
Assembly
for 9
terms; and
the
Legislature
of
Massachusetts
for three
terms.
Noah
Webster
first
published
his
Webster's
Dictionary
on APRIL
14, 1828.
This
26-year
project
with
30,000 new
definitions,
standardized
spelling
and gave
American
English
its
identity.
Proving
unprofitable,
the rights
were
purchased
after his
death by
George and
Charles
Merriam.
In the
preface of
his
original
edition,
Noah
Webster
wrote:
"In
my view,
the
Christian
religion
is the
most
important
and one of
the first
things in
which all
children,
under a
free
government
ought to
be
instructed...
No truth
is more
evident to
my mind
than that
the
Christian
religion
must be
the basis
of any
government
intended
to secure
the rights
and
privileges
of a free
people."
Noah
Webster
concluded:
"To
that great
and
benevolent
Being...who
has borne
me and my
manuscripts
in safety
across the
Atlantic,
and given
me
strength
and
resolution
to bring
the work
to a
close, I
would
present
the
tribute of
my most
grateful
acknowledgments."
Noah
Webster's
1828
Dictionary
defined
"Property"
as:
"The
exclusive
right of
possessing,
enjoying
and
disposing
of a
thing;
ownership.
In the
beginning
of the
world, the
Creator
gave to
man
dominion
over the
earth...
It is one
of the
greatest
blessings
of civil
society
that the
property
of
citizens
is well
secured."
Noah
Webster's
1828
Dictionary
defined
"Religion"
as:
"A
belief in
the being
and
perfections
of God, in
the
revelation
of His
will to
man, in
man''s
obligation
to obey
His
commands,
in a state
of reward
and
punishment,
and in
man's ac countableness
to God...
The
practice
of moral
duties
without a
belief in
a divine
lawgiver,
and
without
reference
to his
will or
commands,
is not
religion."
Noah
Webster
wrote to
James
Madison,
October
16, 1829:
"The
Christian
religion,
in its
purity, is
the basis
or rather
the source
of all
genuine
freedom in
government...
I am
persuaded
that no
civil
government
of a
republican
form can
exist and
be
durable,
in which
the
principles
of that
religion
have not a
controlling
influence."
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