. A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall. ; and astron-omy itself, from a mere observation of insulated facts,into that noble science which displays to our admirationthe system of the universe. And shall this high powerof the mind, which has effected such wonders, whendirected to the laws which control the material world, beforever prohibited, under a senseless cry of metaphysics,from being applied to the high purpose of political scienceand legislation. He held them to be subje
. A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall. ; and astron-omy itself, from a mere observation of insulated facts,into that noble science which displays to our admirationthe system of the universe. And shall this high powerof the mind, which has effected such wonders, whendirected to the laws which control the material world, beforever prohibited, under a senseless cry of metaphysics,from being applied to the high purpose of political scienceand legislation. He held them to be subject to laws asfixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for theapplication of the highest intellectual power. Denuncia-tion may, indeed, fall upon the philosophical inquirerinto these first principles, as it did upon Galileo andBacon, when they first unfolded the great discoverieswhich have immortalized their names; but the time willcome, when truth will prevail in spite of prejudice anddenunciation; and when politics and legislation will beconsidered as much a science as astronomy and chem-istry.* * Jfiles^s Beqister, vol. xliii, Sup.^ p. -TT(IT)]IIH cDJ^lo)-W3EIL3L (DJ^ILMiI^WW,
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