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PATRIOTISM AND SCIENCE

Some Studies

IN

HISTORIC PSYCHOLOGY

BY

WILLIAM MORTON FULLERTON

AUTHOR OF "IN CAIRO"

BOSTON

ROBERTS BROTHERS

1893

Copyright, 1893,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

University Press:

JOHN WILSON and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

5-10-39

To my Father,

On whose library-shelves the sight of Plato touching shoulders with John Howe the Puritan preacher, and of the poet Shelley enduring with unwonted tranquillity his two odd companions on either hand, Balzac and the author of the "Divine Legation of Moses," while just beyond stood Lucretius, the "Thousand and One Nights," and Adam Smith, suggested to me, the boy, the value of the social virtue of tolerance, and, although it impressed at first the special charm of literature, suggested without much ado the larger interest of life.

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