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Excerpt from Charles Sumner, the Idealist, Statesman and Scholar: An Address Delivered on Public Day, June 29, 1874, at the Request of the Faculty of the University of South Carolina
He that, to correct an evil tree which brings forth bad fruit, shall begin at master bough, and so lop downwards, is in danger to fall himself before the tree falls. The safer and speedier way is to begin at the root and there, with submission, would I lay the axe. 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.
