Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course on the Early History of Massachusetts: Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Why, then, am I here at all, seeing that I must needs be so reckless of my own rede, and do only what I feel to be so far short of my own conception, at least, of what is due to the occa sion? The answer to this question, my friends, will supply me with a subject, and will furnish the substance of the apology which I am here to offer you.
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