The Christian Examiner (Volume 56) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by avoiding intermeddling with the domestic politics of other countries, to use every endeavor to increase our prosperity, power, and wealth as a nation, by a wise domestic legislation and by peaceful negotiations with other states. Two great objects are beginning to force themselves upon the attention of this generation, ? the construction of a chain of railroads between our Atlantic and Pacific borders, and the acquisition of the free navigation of the Amazon by an honorable treaty; and both are worthy of serious consideration. In the accomplishment of these objects, we shall almost double our foreign and domestic trade, and the most ardent and hopeful advocates of progress may find sufficient employment for their young energies, without violating our constitutional obligations through a mistaken sense of duty, or departing from the settled policy of the founders of our government at every call of a rampant patriotism. We cannot take leave of Mr. Herndon's volume without expressing the gratification we have derived from its perusal. Though not marked by those qualities which we are accustomed to demand in a practised writer, the style is simple and perspicuous; and the variety and extent of information contained in it show how faithfully the writer performed the duty assigned him. In every respect the work is highly creditable to that arm of the public service which has already undertaken so many enterprises for the benefit of science and the commercial interests of the country. c. c. s. Art. HI. ?MISS MARTINEAU'S COMPEND OF COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. It is but a few years since a review of Comte's original work appeared in this journal,t and to that we refer the reader who wishes to see an abstract of the contents of that bulky and unwieldy publication. We notice ...