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Excerpt from The Essential Principle of Reform: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa;, August 9th, 1865 We cannot be indifferent to these things. Our contact with the thinking mind of the day, and much more, our Obligation to bear a worthy part in every movement connected with the public good, oblige us to give them an earnest attention. It is our privilege and glory, to cast our influence in favor Of the true and' right in every question that concerns human Welfare. These movements are not incipient, but the nu folding and ripening fruit of agitations and efforts in earlier times. They involve and recall the whole subject of moral and social reform. As it is not all gold that glitters, so it is not all reform that assumes that popular name. We must sift the true from the false, and discriminate the diamond from the dust. In the discussion and experience of the past, and in the emphatic teaching of current events, present inquiry has attained vantage position for the comprehension of the entire reformatory problem. The constant effort of rest less theorists and devoted workers, has thrown off results, successful, injurious, or mingled, which show, in no doubtful light, the line along which all true endeavor must move. It is our purpose, standing as we all do, in the midst of this light, to mark and present, as a subject appropriate to our present annual Alumni fellowship. 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.

It is certainly self-evident that sound principles are needed to help guide better understanding and public policy making going forward. The Ten Principles of Regulation and Reform, to be discussed at length in the coming pages, therefore is such a guide, where each of the following chapters is broadly structured as follows: - What is this principle exactly? - Why is this principle important? - How is this principle applied?

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