Excerpt from Pennsylvania-New England; Their Relation to the Most Effective Principle of Federation Embodied in the American Constitution: An Address by Senator Philander C. Knox at a Banquet of the New England Society of Pennsylvania, December 23, 1907 at Philadelphia Here at last we have the great thought of which neither Thucydides nor Polybius ever dreamed the thought of a supreme federal government act ing directly upon the subject or citizen, and not upon the cities or States composing the league. About this path-breaking idea (bahnbrechende Idee) there does not hang the perfume either of the spelling-book or the lexicon. It is living, seed-full fruit - Pallas from the brain of Zeus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.