Excerpt from Speech of His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Delivered to the Two Branches of the Legislature, in Convention, May 29, 1830 Chapter of the Constitution, Which enjoins lipou them, the obligation to cherish Literature and the Sciences, to encourage private Societies and public Institutions'for'the promotion of the great interests of Country, and to oom tenance and inculcate moral virtues, social'afl'ectiohsband generous sentiments among the people. Int this brief compendium are enumerated all the Wise purposes of legislation, and upon these objects the business of'legis lators is never to be exhausted. While knowledge 1s pro gressive and there is yet any thing to learn, .while the Arts are imperfect and there is aught to 'improvefwhile Science is disclosing treasures of Wisdonh, and the human mind is capable of enlargement by their acquisition, there will remain to the Representatives of the People, under this civil compact, the responsibility of fostering Institu tions of learning, of offering incentives to the free spirit of enterprise, and of encouraging by rewards and immunities, Agriculture and the Arts, Commerce, Trades, and. Manu factures, and thus fulfilling the serum for Which a Rep resentative Government was, by the Framers of it,1ex' pressly declared to 'have been constituted. May not the inquiry be now made, to What Objects and how far, .shouldflr the attention of the Members of this Legislature be thus directed? It is but a narrow new of 'the influence? Of. Authority, Which limits its exercise Withinthe. Scope of' 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.