The Conservative Principle in Our Literature
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Excerpt from The Conservative Principle in Our Literature: An Address Before the Literary Societies of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, (Madison County, N. Y.) Delivered in the Chapel of the Institution Gentlemen: In acceding to the request with which you have honored me, and which brings me at this time before you, I have supposed that you expected it of the speaker to present some theme relating to the commonwealth of literature; that commonwealth in which every scholar and every Christian feels naturally so strong an interest. The studies in which you have here engaged, and which in the case of some of you are soon to terminate, have taught you the value of sound learning to yourselves and its power over others. That love of country, which in the bosoms of the young burns with a flame of more than ordinary purity and intensity, gives you an additional interest in the cause of letters; for you know that the literature of the nation must exercise a powerful influence on the national destiny. Acting as it does not merely on the schools, but also upon the homes of a land, it must from those fountains send out its waters of healing or of bitterness, of blessing or of strife, over the length and breadth of our goodly land. You know that it is not mere physical advantages that have gained or that can retain for our country its political privileges. You have seen how the physical condition of a people may remain unchanged, whilst the moral condition of a people is deteriorating rapidly and fatally. You remember that the same sun shone on the same Marathon, when it was the heritage and the battle-ground of freemen; and when, in later and more disastrous days, it re-echoed to the footsteps of the Greek bondsman and his Ottoman oppressor. You look to literature, and other moral causes, then, as determining to some extent the future history of our land. You know that literature is not always of a healthy character, nor does it in all ages exercise a conservative influence. It is like the vegetation of our earth, of varied nature. Much of it is the waving harvest that fills our garners and piles our boards with plenty; and, alas, much of it has been, like the rank ivy, hastening the decay it serves to hide, and crumbling into speedier ruin the edifice it seems to adorn and beautify. As lovers of your country, you must therefore feel an eager anxiety for the moral character of the literature that country is to cherish. 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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