This page needs to be proofread.
The Works of Alexander Hamilton Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
- The lacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or
musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by cbe hand of the Di%'inity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.*' [Hamilton — The Farmer Refuted^ 177$, ^t. 18. J ^* We are laboring hard to establish in this country principles more and more mationrti, and free from all foreign ingredients, so that we may be neither * Greeks nor Trojans,* but iraiy Americans."— [Hamilton ti> Ki.Nf,, 1796, /Ex. jy. | Volume I G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London Sbe fcnicfterbocfter presd 1904
