The Relations of the American Lawyer to the State

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Excerpt from The Relations of the American Lawyer to the State: An Oration Delivered Before the Assembly of the Harvard Law School, at the Opening of the Fall Term, September, 1859And to professional studies we should bring the attempered feelings and thoughtful minds of men. Ignorant of his powers, tastes, opportunities, and responsibilities, with scores of boys like himself undisciplined and impulsive, the college student enters a race for what prize, to what goal, he too often neither knows nor cares. The diversions inci dent to youth and numbers - societies, clubs, society itself, companions, libraries, and plans of study - quite bewilder him, and are hard to be woven into a wise, harmonious system. Slow to acknowledge the supe rior judgment of their instructors, the mass of students slight the prescribed course of study, and graduate just as they begin to appreciate the advantages they have enjoyed. But college life has, at least, devel oped the powers, and discovered individual aptitudes. It has also impressed upon the mind many invaluable conclusions. It has taught that in every department of thought there always remains something more to be learned, that truth, though apparently con¿icting, is wholly reconcilable that the powers of the soul should be ever expanding through a belief in its im mortality, and that each to-morrow, as the morning of an ascending life, should find us farther than to-day.Whether derived from the experience of the schools or the world, such, doubtless, are the convictions of us all. Understanding the value of a liberal education, we appreciate the pleasure and utility arising from attain ments in the sciences of -mathematics, Natural and Civil History, Language, Metaphysics, and Theology.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.