Historical Maxims for Troubled Times: An Address Before the Law Department of Yale College, at Commencement, June 27, 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Historical Maxims for Troubled Times: An Address Before the Law Department of Yale College, at Commencement, June 27, 1887

The solicitude of our countryman abroad was there fore most natural, and was doubtless shared by the true friends of civil liberty and of progress throughout chris tendom. How have these hopes been justified, and their fears happily disappointed? We are just closing the first great epoch of our reconstruction, and it seems to me not inappropriate to compare some points in our experience with those of other nations, and to inquire whether our history has confirmed the general maxims which wise historians have drawn as conclusions from the conduct of other peoples in times of revolution and convulsion. I propose further to ask your attention to the tendency of even the most enlightened societies to forget these lessons of experience at the very time when they may be most useful, that is to say, at the time when they are passing through events similar or at least analogous to those of other times.

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