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The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to Posterity

Josiah Phillips Quincy

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Description:Excerpt from The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to PosterityI shall assume that all here present agree with these wo1ds of the late Lord Acton quoted with approval by mr.\bryce It is the office of historical science to maintain morality as the sole impartial criterion of men and things. Otherwise we might well follow the example of the ancients and erect altars to Fortune as the only discernible director ofhuman affairs. An historical tribunal can by no means adopt the word patri otism as a summary of the whole duty of man. It should be free from the bias of nationality. To say that an act must meet its approval because it tended to the aggrandizement of a people occupying a given division of the earth's surface is quite beside the mark. The Only question to be considered is whether a direction of history, initiated by this or that respon sible human act, _ was clearly a beneficent factor in the evolu tion of our race towards those moral and social altitudes which it is pleasant to assume man is destined to attain. If it is decided that this was the case, then those who opposed that act must be held up for censure as examples of short-sighted ness, ca'ptiousness, and error.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to Posterity. To get started finding The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to Posterity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to PosterityI shall assume that all here present agree with these wo1ds of the late Lord Acton quoted with approval by mr.\bryce It is the office of historical science to maintain morality as the sole impartial criterion of men and things. Otherwise we might well follow the example of the ancients and erect altars to Fortune as the only discernible director ofhuman affairs. An historical tribunal can by no means adopt the word patri otism as a summary of the whole duty of man. It should be free from the bias of nationality. To say that an act must meet its approval because it tended to the aggrandizement of a people occupying a given division of the earth's surface is quite beside the mark. The Only question to be considered is whether a direction of history, initiated by this or that respon sible human act, _ was clearly a beneficent factor in the evolu tion of our race towards those moral and social altitudes which it is pleasant to assume man is destined to attain. If it is decided that this was the case, then those who opposed that act must be held up for censure as examples of short-sighted ness, ca'ptiousness, and error.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to Posterity. To get started finding The Louisiana Purchase and the Appeal to Posterity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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