Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration on the Duties and the Requirements of an American Officer: Delivered Before the Dialectic Society of the United States Military Academy; West Point, N. Y., June 5, 1852
IT was remarked by one of the wise men of modern times that the duties of life are more than life itself. This was not the speech of a devotee or a martyr, looking to the rewards of another world, nor of the canting hypo crite, who ever assumes in speech, as the safest disguise, the approved maxims of experience. It was the pro found thought of Francis Bacon, a lawyer, a statesman; a man of high religious sentiment, although not a mor alist in his own example; and one of the fathers of philos ophy, whose grasping and pervading genius penetrated all departments of human inquiry, and whose works while they established, are illustrative of, an era in his tory.
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