The Practical Limitations of Historics Precedents An Address Delivered At the a
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Political wisdom is a computing principle adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing morally, and not metaphysically or mathematically, . True moral denomi- nations. " In saying this, he proved how much he had unlearned of the teachings of his youth ; or, to express it better, how he had expanded these acquirements to fit them exactly to the situation in which he lived. He had become their master, and not their servant. His words illustrate the grand distinction between knowledge and wisdom,... and, in ^ THE UNIVERSITY 13 this, he thought with Paul, the greatest of ecclesiastical statesmen, who said, " all things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. " I am so anxious to see the American youth become beneficially influential in affairs that I am, throughout, stating my views perhaps too absolutely for nicely adjusted criticism, but not too absolutely for use, if they are true. And, if we now are, as I firmly believe, in a critical period of our development; if changes in our system are threat- ened of the most radical character ; if problems, which never before arose in any State, are presenting themselves for solution; if insidious influences have already endan- gered some of the most vital elements of our national and social being; if these must be met, not by the sword, but by the intellect of the people working upon our insti- tutions to reform and to better them, then no voice can be too loudly raised, even if like Cassandra's, it be not believed.
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