Excerpt from The Conservative Principle in Our Literature: An Address Before the Literary Societies of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, (Madison County, N. Y.) Delivered in the Chapel of the Institution More than one generation has come and gone since the delivery and first publication of the address; and while manners and customs have changed with the changing generation, it is still true that the utilitarian ism, the passion, the lawlessness, the false liberalism, and the superstition which the writer pointed out as the great perils of his day are to be met and overcome by the same conservative principle which was the theme and inspiration of his address. It is in the hope that new readers in a new day may find from this Old address something of the strength which it brought to its earlier readers, that it is here reprinted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.