.135 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by FRANCIS LIEBER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 95386 BOSTON, PRINTED BY FREEMAN AND BOLLES, WASHINGTON STREET. It has been stated in the preface to the Legal and Political Hermeneutics, that this work grew out of an essay, originally intended as a chapter of the Political Ethics. The reasons why the author felt obliged to publish it as a separate work are there likewise given. He must repeat here that the Hermeneutics are to be considered as a complement to the Ethics, and that it was unavoidable frequently to refer in the latter to the former. COLUMBIA, S. C. June, 1839. |