Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330205679
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Book Synopsis Professor Royce's Libel by : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Download or read book Professor Royce's Libel written by Francis Ellingwood Abbot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Professor Royce's Libel: A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University To The President And Fellows And Board Of Overseers Of Harvard University: Gentlemen, - Believing it to be a necessary part of good citizenship to defend ones reputation against unjustifiable attacks, and believing you to have been unwarrantably, but not remotely, implicated in an unjustifiable attack upon my own reputation by Assistant Professor Josiah Royce, since his attack is made publicly, explicitly, and emphatically on the authority of his "professional" position as one of your agents and appointees, I respectfully apply to you for redress of the wrong, leaving it wholly to your own wisdom and sense of justice to decide what form such redress should take. If Dr. Royce had not, by clear and undeniable implication, appealed to your high sanction to sustain him in his attack, - if he had not undeniably sought to create a widespread but false public impression that, in making this attack, he spoke, and had a right to speak, with all the prestige and authority of Harvard University itself, - I should not have deemed it either necessary or becoming to appeal to you in self-defence, or, indeed, to take any public notice whatever of an attack otherwise unworthy of it. But under the circumstances I am confident that you will at once recognize the inevitable and unquestionable propriety of my appeal from the employee to the employer, from the agent to the principal; and it would be disrespectful to you to doubt for a moment that, disapproving of an attack made impliedly and yet unwarrantably in your name, you will express your disapprobation in some just and appropriate manner. 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.
