An Address on the Relations of Utilitarianism to Individual and National Culture. Delivered at Easton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday Evening, July 25, 1854, before the Alumni of Lafayette College Preceding Commencement

52 pp. One gathering of pages. A commencement speech focusing on the social ramifications of Utilitarian philosophy. EXCERPT: "I bid you welcome to this literary festival. It is meet that, as the annual thanksgiving returns, the pilgrim sons should gather around the family board and rehearse their experience. Thus the old hearthstone, the type of life's purest and best estate, is kept sacred to the memory, and fraternal ties strengthen as the years fly apace. It is also befitting that the scholar should have his literary Mecca, to which he may resort for inspiration and sympathy. Jaded by conflict with the world, or wasted by the toil of thought, or perhaps irritated by the competitions of life, it is well occasionally to seek the exhilaration of the spot where the panoply of life's battle was first put on. There fresh courage may be imparted, new mental inspiration may be received, and the cares of life may dwindle in the contrast with the joyous past and the high destinies of the still opening future."