The republic of Cicero / Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction.

Chapter 4: TO RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq. F. R. S., F. G. S., &c. &c. &c.

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A series of philosophical dialogues investigates the nature and foundations of a republic, weighing laws, justice, and public duty against the practical demands of governance. Participants argue that private virtue and civic education are essential to public happiness and to the enforcement of law. The text proposes constitutional arrangements that blend different elements of authority to guard against corruption and decline, and it supplements argument with historical exemplars and rhetorical exposition. Interlaced reflections extend the discussion to the moral and cosmic dimensions of political life, linking individual character to the stability of the state.

TO
RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq.
F. R. S., F. G. S., &c. &c. &c.

I dedicate these pages to you, my dear Murchison, that you may have a renewed assurance of my great esteem and friendship for you. I should have had a livelier satisfaction in doing so, if the part I have had in the production of them, were more worthy of your refined taste. I hope to offer some compensation, however, in the assurance, that you will find in them many congenial opinions and principles.

G. W. Featherstonhaugh.

New-York, January 21, 1829.