Excerpt from The Ancient and the Modern Teacher of Politics: An Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on the State, Delivered on the 10th of October, 1850, in the Law School of Columbia College This day I beg to make some preliminary remarks, chiefly intended to point out to you the position which, so far as I can discern, a public teacher of politics in this country and at this period, either occupies of necessity, or ought to occupy. Antiquity differs from modern civilization by no characteristic more signally than by these two facts, that throughout the former there was but one lead ing state or country at any given period, while now several nations strive In the career of progress. 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.