Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. John Gambold, A. M: With an Introductory Essay IT has long been received as a maxim amongst those who have studied politics, in connection with the philosophy of human nature, that the surest and shortest way of making men good subjects and good citizens, is to make them happy subjects and happy citizens. When we say that a man is happy as a subject, or as a citizen, or as a member of any society, we feel that we are just saying, in other words, that he is attached to the government, or state, or society under, or in which he lives; and that he is, of course, disposed to fulfil the duties connected with these relations. It is a maxim founded on the in stincts of man; and however it may be neglected in practice, it has too much obvious truth in it, to be often controverted in the abstract. Some speculative philanthropists have given this maxim a more splen did and imposing form. They say, Surround a man with circumstances, and you make of him what you please; command his circumstances, and you command his character. This proposition has not met with so favourable a reception as the other, although it is probably intended to convey precisely the same idea, namely, that a man's character de. 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.