Excerpt from On Civil Liberty and Self-Government, Vol. 1 of 2 There are now in different portions of this country not far from a thousand citizens in the formation of whose minds I have had some share as a teacher. Many of Q you are in places'of authority, and I con. Sider myself more fortunate than the great founder of political science in this, that Aristotle taught a royal youth and future conqueror, and Athenians indeed, but at a period when the sun of Greece was setting, while my lot has been to instruct the future law-makers of a vast and growing commonwealth in the noblest branches that can be imparted to the minds of youths preparing themselves for the citizen ship of a great republic. I have taught you in the early-part of our history which God has destined to fill a fair page in the annals of man if we do our arduous duty. If not, our shame will be propor tionate. 'he never holds out high rewards without corresponding penalties. 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.