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IF of making many books there is no end, it is some consolation to an author, that the generation of readers never dies and a still greater one to readers, that they can make their own selections from a contin ually enlarging field. Among the chartered elements of freedom in this noble country are the pen and the press. Men may think What they please, and write What they think, so that they invade no prerogative of God, violate no dictates of a sound conscience, and trespass on no rights of their fellow-men. At the same time they should maintain a manly intimacy With truth, and cherish a warm congeniality With the spirit of hu manity and progressive knowledge. The contents of the following pages are not hasty effusions, the results of the random impulse of the moment, or the amuse ment of an idle hour, or the dreams of a vagrant ima gination. Such as they are, they have been well con sidered, being the fruits of mature re?ection. Less than this, a due and decent respect for the public would forbid. Less than this, the proper respect of an author for himself would not allow.
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