Historical Maxims for Troubled Times
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Excerpt from Historical Maxims for Troubled Times: An Address Before the Law Department of Yale College, at Commencement, June 27, 1887 When the late war was just ended, and we were turning our thoughts to the question of building a restored nationality upon the fields of our great struggle. I remember being struck by a remark of one of our countrymen abroad, in a letter to a leading newspaper at home. He said the thing he most desired to do was to commend his fellow citizens to a prayerful study of history. His words pithily expressed the feeling which sagacious men must very commonly have had, that the test of our political wisdom was upon us; that the great danger was that we should be too much ruled by the passions and prejudices engendered by strife, failing to remember the lessons which past events might teach, and so should fall into wrongs or blunders that would bring a train of evils from which we could only redeem ourselves at great cost and with great suffering. It was evident to all who would think, that the work of pacification and of adjusting the constitution of the country to the new circumstances of the nation, was one of great difficulty and delicacy, but it was very far from being evident whether wisdom would be listened to and the fundamental laws of human nature and human society be regarded in the legal settlement we were to make. 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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