An Address at the Inauguration of Joseph G. Hoyt, LL.D., as Chancellor of Washington University, Saint Louis, Tuesday Evening, October 4, 1859 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...hate the cowardice of doing wrong," and to love the beauty and goodness (to xaXbv xal zayadbv') of a true and manly life. The allegory of Prodicus and the picture of Cebes are familiar illustrations of this kind of writing; and not a few of the best books in our Sunday-school libraries are indebted to them, to a greater or less extent, for their efficiency in winning the young to virtue. The argument of Paley and of most modern a posteriori writers in moral philosophy, proving from the evidences of design in nature, the existence and benevolent providence of a Supreme Being, is only a dilution of the famous conversation between Socrates and his devoted, though skeptical, disciple, Aristodemus. Memorabilia, L. II, c. 4. It is'not too much to say in respect to the laws of modern times, that Roman jurisprudence still bears sway in all the courts of christendom. When the shadows of the middle ages began to rise from the nations of continental Europe, the Pandects of Justinian, a compilation of the legal lore of thirteen hundred years, all revised and purged of what was arbitrary and technical by Cujacius and the civiliians, so as to be equally well adapted to all ages and'peoples, were hailed with joy and gratitude as a collection of written reason, a revelation of the holiest mysteries of justice. Chancellor Kent, who was himself a brilliant illustration of the use which may be made of the enlightened equity of the Roman jurisconsults, traces the great improvements in our jurisprudence to "the study and influence of the civil law." Such a result could hardly fail to follow from such a cause. For, unlike some of the pettifogging pragmatici of the present day, who, in Dr. Arnold's opinion, are not fit for heaven, the Roman lawyers looked upon...
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