Excerpt from Inaugural Address of Thomas N. Hart, Mayor of Boston, to the City Council, January 6, 1890Public servants of experience are apt to take a despondent view of public opinion. But the public is not intentionally unjust, and it is not ungenerous. It is not infallible, but naturally prefers to judge its Government liberally. It is ready to forgive errors of judgment it will not condone breaches of good faith, nor a violation of public duty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.