Excerpt from The Life of the General Lafayette: Marquis of France, General in the United States Army The disinterested philanthropy and panting for freedom which Mated the Marquis in his youth, and engaged his riper thought when a venerable hermit at La Grange, ap peal to the heart and aspirations of the successors of the illustrious dead as the guardians Of a Republic, which has passed from the stormy deep of physical combat, to the less awakening, but equally perilous sea of moral and poli tical conflict. 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.