On Civil Liberty and Self-Government

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There are now in different portions of this country not far from a thousand citizens in the formation of whose minds I have had some share as a teacher. Many of Q you are in places'of authority, and I con. Sider myself more fortunate than the great founder of political science in this, that Aristotle taught a royal youth and future conqueror, and Athenians indeed, but at a period when the sun of Greece was setting, while my lot has been to instruct the future law-makers of a vast and growing commonwealth in the noblest branches that can be imparted to the minds of youths preparing themselves for the citizen ship of a great republic. I have taught you in the early-part of our history which God has destined to fill a fair page in the annals of man if we do our arduous duty. If not, our shame will be propor tionate. 'he never holds out high rewards without corresponding penalties.