Excerpt from The Opening Address of the Maryland Association, for the Encouragement of Literature and the Arts In his physical and intellectual natures, man is a mysteriously wrought and highly exalted being. But his character is incomplete without another set of faculties. 'he must possess a moral nature by which the physical and intellectual are to be kept in control. He was doubtless created with all his faculties in a state of perfection. God could not otherwise have created him. His work must always of necessity be perfect, and perfectly adapted to the position it is in tended to occupy in the mighty scale of his creation. At his crea tion man's faculties were unpolluted. They were pure, as well as per feet. His moral nature was of sufficient force for the control and regulation of his physical and intellectual powers. In the exercise of his faculties, under such regulation, he was capable of the highest condition of human happiness, and that happiness was in its de gree perfect. It was but a little lower than the happiness of the angels of Heaven, and only inferior to it in the difference between their nature and his. 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.