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Excerpt from The Obligations of the American Scholar to His Country and the World: An Address, Delivered Before the Philalethean Society of Hanover College, September 28th, 1841 Upon man and his character, present and prospective, we are prone to speculate. Did we know all the causes and the condi tion of those causes, now in Operation, in forming the character of the men of America, and especially the men of this confe deracy, we could foresee and foretell the results. In anticipa ting our future character we must take into account the materi als that make up the mass of our people, and the peculiarity of circumstances under which their character must be formed. We derive our origin from every civilized nation of Europe. Possessing various forms of education, prejudices, and habits, our fathers met upon the shores of the Western Continent. Va riety of character, novelty of circumstances, extent of country, freedom of institutions, gave a Spirit of enterprize, a compre hension of views, a liberality of thought, and tendency to con cession in mutual intercourse, to all of which the world had in great measure been a stranger. Traces of these are distinctly seen in our public institutions, and in our social progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.