Excerpt from Manual of Political Ethics, Vol. 1: Book I. Ethics General and Political; Book II. The State Besides these testimonies from the two first jurists of the generation next preceding ours, additional ones from the historian Prescott, from Hallam, and others, may be found in the discourse of judge Thayer. 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.