The Houses of Providence: A Study of Present Conditions and Tendencies, With Notes on the Surrounding Communities and Some Mill Villages (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Ihlder

9780267864607: The Houses of Providence: A Study of Present Conditions and Tendencies, With Notes on the Surrounding Communities and Some Mill Villages (Classic Reprint)

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What wonder then, with these reminders constantly before them, if the American born of American ancestry find pleasure in recalling the past? And it is more than reminders that the past has given to the present. Generations of wealth and culture have gone to pro duce the atmosphere that makes so large a part of Providence charm. It is not street names and Old houses, it is what those names and houses symbolize; it is not alone present wealth and education, it is past wealth and education, with their generations' long eﬂect upon standards of living, standards of conduct and of thought, that make the Providence of first impressions.

SO Providence owes much to the past, and it acknowledges the debt. But Providence also owes a debt to the future. Having received, it must also give. And to be worth having its gift must be not merely of its possessions, but of itself. In that lies the value of the gift it has received. Steadfast courage, willingness to sacrifice for an ideal, to work despite discouragement, is the real legacy from the past and that is the only legacy which will count for the future.

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