Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. AN OLD MASTER AND OTHER POLITICAL ESSAYS AN OLD MASTER AND OTHER POLITICAL ESSAYS BY WOODROW WILSON PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF “CONGRESSIONAL GOVERNMENT,” “DIVISION AND REUNION,” ETC., ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1893 COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK TO ROBERT BRIDGES WITH HEARTY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LONG AND TRIED FRIENDSHIP CONTENTS PAGE I. AN OLD MASTER, 3 II. THE STUDY OF POLITICS, 31 III. POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY, 61 IV. CHARACTER OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES, 99 V. GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, 141 ⁂ I. and II. republished from the _New Princeton Review_, IV. and V. from the _Atlantic Monthly_, with the kind permission of the publishers. I AN OLD MASTER Why has no one ever written on the art of academic lecturing and its many notable triumphs? In some quarters new educational canons have spoken an emphatic condemnation of the college lecture, and it would seem to be high time to consider its value, as illustrative of an art about to be lost, if not as exemplary of forces to be retained, even if modified. Are not our college class-rooms, in being robbed of the old-time lecture, and getting instead a science-brief of _data_ and bibliography, being deprived also of that literary atmosphere which once pervaded them? We are unquestionably gaining in thoroughness; but are we gaining in thoughtfulness? We are giving to many youths an insight, it may be profound, into specialties; but are we giving any of them a broad outlook?