Excerpt from Lectures to American Audiences In reading the lectures in different places, some mat ter of a specially local character was necessarily left out and put in at each. Things for instance which had a special fitness at Boston had no special fitness at Bal timore. In revising the lectures for the press, I have for the most part kept such local references as belonged specially to New England. In the first series there are naturally a good many. Of these, and that from two causes. The lectures were written first of all for de livery at Boston; and it will be further easy to see that, for the particular purpose which I had in hand, the name, the institutions, and the history Of New England supplied me with much that Specially suited my object. 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.