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IN the year 1903 certain friends of Edwin L. Godkin, desiring to express their admira tion and gratitude for his long and disinter ested service to the country of his adoption by some suitable memorial, which should per petuate his name and stimulate that spirit of independent thought and unselfish devotion to the public good which characterized his life and distinguished his career gave to Harvard College a fund of which the income should be used in providing for the delivery and publi cation of lectures upon 'the Essentials of F ree Government and the Duties of the Citizen,' or upon some part of that subject, such lec tures to be called 'the Godkin This volume contains the Godkin Lectures delivered in March, 1920.
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