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Excerpt from The Influence of Moral Causes Upon Opinion, Science, and Literature: A Discourse Delivered on the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement of Amherst College, August 27th, 1834, at the Request of the Literary Societies of That Institution
During the last year the partiality of one of the col leges of my native state' of new-york selected me for the discharge of a literary duty similar to the one with which your kindness has now honoured me. In per forming that duty, I endeavoured to call the attention of my young hearers - who, like yourselves, were soon to join in the throng and participate ia the struggles of active life - to the consideration of those moral uses and influences that ought rightly to flow from their recent studies and acquirements.' The business of the scholar was, I urged, the study of truth, - of truth, either neces sary, as in mathematical, and, to some extent, in moral speculation, - or else universal or general, as in the in vestigation of nature and the analysis and classification of the complex phenomena presented to our senses. Truth, too, - in another sense, -the truth of human nature, is the source of all literary control, and grace, N Discourse delivered after the commencement of Geneva College, 1833. 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.
