The Duty Of The American Scholar To The Literature Of His Country An Address Delivered Before The Goethean And Diagnothian Societies Of Marshall College At Their Annual Celebration Etc PDF Download

Excerpt from The Annual Address Delivered Before the Diagnothian and Goethean Literary Societies of Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., On the Connection Between Government, and Science and Literature: September 8, 1846 In our country, mind sits enthroned in its mightiest power. Its achieve ments and triumphs have been brilliant. This is the result of civil liberty. Civil liberty is natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws, and no farther, as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. The law which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. Our govern ment leaves the citizen entire master of his own conduct, except in those points in which the public good requires some direction or restraint. 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.