Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects #271049

I ask every rouse nun who may read this book, not to submit his judgment to mine, not to hate because I denounce, nor blindly to follow me; but to weigh my reasons, that he may form his own judgment. I only claim the place of a com panion; and that I may gain his ear, I have sought to present truth in those forms which best please the young; and though I am not without h0pe of satisfying the aged and the wise, my whole thought has been to carry with me the intelligent sympathy of rouse nan.