Addresses, Delivered by Governor Wallace, and President Simpson
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Excerpt from Addresses, Delivered by Governor Wallace, and President Simpson: At the Indiana Asbury University, September 16, 1840 Fellow-Citizens: If it be true, - and who so bold as to controvert it, - "that when men cannot govern themselves they must be governed; that if they were perfect in intelligence and virtue they would need no government at all; or that in nations the capacity for self-government is measured by the aggregate power of mind;" what patriot who worships at the altar of American freedom; what philosopher, who limits his speculations only by his desire for human perfectability and happiness, can view, with heart unmoved, or with an eye of cold and repulsive indifference, the noble, the generous attempt, made by the founders of this University, to relieve our and their children, who, in after years, may be gathered within these walls - from the degrading condition of the worst of vassallages; - to dispense even with the necessity of their being much governed, by enlarging their stock of intelligence and virtue; in a word, to swell the national capacity for self-government, by increasing the aggregate power of mind, with the powers of an abundant knowledge? Surely there can be none such here. But this is not all: we were told by a ripe and eloquent scholar, at a recent literary festival in a sister state, "that it is good for us, occasionally, to suspend the activities of trade, the strife of politics, and the frivolities of pleasure, that we may enjoy even a transient repose in the shade of elegant letters, and survey, even at an humble distance, the uncloud-ed eminences of Philosophic truth." This admirable sentiment, beautifully as it is expressed, strikes me as being not altogether inapplicable to the present occasion. True we have not the shade here alluded to - that has yet to be formed. 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.
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