Text Bk Of Prose From Burke We

Author : Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364474099
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Text-Book of Prose From Burke, Webster and Bacon written by Henry Norman Hudson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Text-Book of Prose From Burke, Webster and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches of the Authors Lives, for Use in Schools and Classes As to the principle on which the selections proceed, my aim has been, throughout, to unite the culture of high and pure literary tastes with the attainment of useful and lib eral knowledge. I think it will not be questioned that there is something of special reason why our young people of both sexes should be early and carefully instructed in the principles of our federal Constitution, and in the structure and working of our august national State. We pride ourselves on the alleged competency of the American people for self-government. Yet it is but too evident that, in political matters, a large majority of them have not advanced beyond the little learning which is proverbially a dangerous thing. The degree of intelligence which naturally issues in conceit and presumption is the utmost that can be afiirmed of them. Thus it comes about that, for the seats of public trust, shallow, flashy demagogues are very commonly preferred to solid, judicious, honest men. At this day, our average voter certainly has not more judgment of his own than he' had fifty years ago, and he has far less respect for the judgment of wiser men. The popular mind is indeed busy enough with the vulgar politics of the hour but in the true grounds and forces of social and political well-being it is discouragingly ignorant, while it is more and more casting off those habits of mod esty and reverence which might do the work of knowledge. 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.