A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society On January
A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society On January
Rowland Gibson Hazard
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Without them her soil and climate might have produced strong bodies, but she would have want- ed the animating soul which has made her what she is, and sustains her at a point, from which, this wanting, she would precipitately fall. The advancement of speculative philosophy, and of abstract science, must of course be but a progress of ideas. But these, in their developments, exert a practical influence on our thouglits, feelings, sentiments, habits and actions — in short, on the moral, intellec...tual and physical condition of the Avorld. In the department of physical labor, they point the way to me- chanical improvements, or penetrating the political strata, rev- olutionize governments, or convulse nations when they are too strongly opposed by pre-established institutions. What was the political tragedy enacted in France near the commencement of this century, but a practical manifestation of ideas which had advanced far enough to expose the evils of the govern- ment, but had not yet reached the construction of a better ?
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