...of different schoolbooks, foreign and domestic, freely canvassed. Plans of education, adapted to thg natural, commercial, and social condition of the interior,...foster Western genius, encourage Western writers, patronise Western publishers, augment the number of Western readers, and create a Western heart. "...

...when it is compelled to extend itself in only one." In the Discourse he argued further that education should foster western genius, encourage western writers,...of western readers, and "create a western heart." Perhaps the writers of the Great Valley, he suggested, were not as good as the East. The westerners...

...representing the nation's future. As Daniel Drake, an early and influential Cincinnati booster, wrote, 'Ve should foster western genius, encourage western writers,...number of western readers and create a western heart . . . [then] the union will be secure, for its center will be sound, and its attraction on the surrounding...

...western identity and culture. One woman encouraged Cincinnatians to mold a regional cultural identity: "We should foster Western genius, encourage Western...publishers, augment the number of Western readers, Although some might argue that Cincinnati's personalities were at odds with one another, Cincinnati...