Political studies

Front matter

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Preface

The present volume embodies a few out of many Political Studies to which I have given my best thoughts during the last twenty-five years. Of these, by far the greater number, having appeared as articles in the daily Press, are excluded from republication. Those here preserved have been collected under the advice of friends, who have considered them worthy of more than ephemeral notice. One only — that on "The Boman Colonies under the Empire " — ^now appears for the first time. Like the Letters on "University Reform and College Fellowships,'' and one or two other Essays contained in this volume, it is ** political " only in that wider sense which comprehends everything that can interest or instruct a statesman.

With the exception of very slight verbal alterations, all the following papers are printed in their original form. No attempt has been made to revise the opinions expressed in them by the light of subsequent experience, to harmonize one with another, or even to correct such occasional repetitions of the same phrase or sentiment as must needs find their way into compositions of the same author, produced at long intervals, on kindred Bnbjects, but with different objects. Each must therefore be judged by the date of its first publication. If a substantial unity of political faith shall be found to pervade and characterize the whole, it is due to the fact that I have seen no reason to change my x)olitical convictions, in any essential respect, since I first embraced them.

GEORGE C. BRODRICK.

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