Excerpt from The Social System: An Address Pronounced Before the House of Convocation, of Trinity College, Hartford, August 2, 1848 Trinity college, with its peculiar organization, cannot fail to have a good deal to do with the opinions which shall be held in this country on a good many questions of great practical im portance, interesting alike to the statesman, the philanthmpist and the Christian. It has that peculiar organization believed to be best calculated to preserve and maintain within itself all forms of sound doctrine - not only in religion, but in all ethical ques tions, and all questions touching the relations of men in the social state. Like all our other Colleges it has its legal existence and government in a Corporation but it has an internal organi zation and government of its own, which, in its religious aspect, is according to Episcopal forms and polity. The President of the College is the Rector of the Academical body, which is supervised, in its moral and spiritual interests, by the Bishop of the Diocese in which it is situated. It is thus formed into 3. Religious, as well as an Academical Society, and is so far built on better foundations than human hands could lay. It is a Chris tian Brotherhood, domiciled in their own Halls of College, and devoted to personal cultivation and discipline, and to the business of education - to the intellectual, moral and religious training of young men. 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.