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Excerpt from Lecture on the Present Political Condition and Prospects of Spain: Delivered Before the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts
IT is not altogether my fault, if the topics to which I shall in vite your attention, have but little direct relation to the peculiar objects of the Institution at the request of whose officers I am before you. The narrative - for it is but little more - which I am about to present you, was prepared for a different purpose, and had already answered that purpose, well or ill, when the Man agers of the Institute did me the honor to insist that I should make it part of the course in which I had promised to participate. The historical shape which it necessarily assumes, leaves but little room, at the best, for that sort of attraction which is now generally sought in the lecture-room. It is not my object to aim at anything of the kind. I shall be content if you will allow me, as unambitiously as may be, to diffuse a little information upon a subject which few persons take the trouble to investigate, but which has occupied a good deal of my observation and leisure. It may be the means of removing a few, out of many, prejudices which have riped and riped, until it is now well nigh time for them to rot and rot.
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