Oration on the Duties Imposed by the Spirit of the Age: Delivered by Appointment of the Trustees Before the Gwinnett Manual Labor School Institute at ... July 26th, 1838 (Classic Reprint) baixar o livro de graça

Excerpt from Oration on the Duties Imposed by the Spirit of the Age: Delivered by Appointment of the Trustees Before the Gwinnett Manual Labor School Institute at Its Annual Examination, July 26th, 1838 The age in which we live has been truly termed the age of improvement. In all the various departments of life, we are presented with abundant evidence, that the dormant energies, intellectual and moral, of our race, have been aroused, and are now exerting their influence with a power and efficiency unprecedented in the history of the world. The present century has witnessed, in the physical sciences and mechanic arts, improvements and discoveries as astounding in their character as they are important in their practical results. The resources of life have been multiplied audits facilities increased, to an extent almost beyond the powers of computation. The laws of nature have been investigated and demonstrated with a certainty, which, while it has demolished many of the cherished theories of times gone by, has thrown wide open the doors of her abundant store-house, exposed to man's inspection her ample treasures, and invited him to appropriate to himself whatever can gratify his curiosity or minister to his wants. Her recesses have been explored, and, illumined by the torch which truth has supplied, have furnished new incentives to further investigation, new themes of wonder and admiration, and new proofs, not only of the wisdom, power and beneficence of her architect, but that it was his design in constituting man the lord of creation, that all her works should be subservient to his use and tributary to his happiness. When, so well as at the present period, has the character of the human intellect, its powers and susceptibilities, been understood? When have existed so many aids for its discipline and its achievements? When has its compass been more wide, its efforts more bold, or its triumphs more glorious? Never, so well as now, has the precept, founded in truth and dictated by wisdom, been so scrupulously regarded, "The proper study of mankind is man." On the political world the spirit of the age has also made its impression. 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.