Excerpt from Intellectual Leadership in American History: An Address Delivered Before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, at Brown University, Providence, June 15th, 1875 What does God then but reveal himself, as his manner is, first to his Englishmen. Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded by his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, search ing, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. 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.