"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."--Henry Peter Brougham, The Present State of Law, 1828. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Braves' Dance, Ojibwa George Catlin

Trees Henry Lyman Saÿen

Model for Colossal Head of Raphael Olin Levi Warner

Portrait of a Woman (with Cactus) Frederick Carl Frieseke

Magnificent Clay Bluffs, 1800 Miles abov... George Catlin

Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia (Convolvulus)... Mary Vaux Walcott