The Growth of Government

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Excerpt from The Growth of Government: A Sermon Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, January 2, 1878Passing now from material objects and their qualities to the consideration of the benevolent con duct of intelligent beings, still may we affirm, as we enter the political and moral realm, that ulti mate principles, like the distinction between right. And wrong, inhere in the nature of things. They are eternal, necessary truths. But how these prin ciples may be applied to the practical relations of men, and become embodied in righteous government, is a matter of multifarious judgment, and must be learned through manifold ages by the experience of nations. We cannot at once incorporate divine principles into human laws. We perceive the prin ciples, but cannot conceive the laws. The benev olent Wisdom of God, men and generations of men must help one another to interpret and understand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.