ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the address of John Thelwall to the audience at closing his lectures for the season. In his address, Thelwall describes principles that guides to permanent virtue, and consequently to the permanent happiness of the human race. He stresses the importance and necessity of frequently recurring to retirement and meditation. The meditations which led him to consolidate his opinions upon matters of politics, have also had an influence upon a part of his conduct. Sentiments of genuine liberty must be the result of laborious reasoning, and must spring from deep rooted principles. To be efficacious they must be felt and understood, and not like the babbling of a parrot, who repeats the words, but understands not the meaning they are intended to convey.
