A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History: Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, Before the Capitol Hill Institute, December 17, 1842 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Woodbury, Levi

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ISBN 10: 1331490200 ISBN 13: 9781331490203

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History: Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, Before the Capitol Hill Institute, December 17, 1842 It has been an interesting enquiry in all ages - What is the Truth? At the foundation of this enquiry, whether relating to science, the arts, politics, or religion, has been an early, if not the greatest question - What is the truth in History? What does it show, on the momentous topics - Whence came we? When? Where? Why? Whither do we tend? What have been the chief instruments to advance, or retard, the human race? How long is its progress to last? And what, for greater weal or woe, is to be the consummation of its destiny? Considerations like these are vital to all. But, on this occasion, I do not propose to glance at any of them, except the uncertainties which exist in much of history. These, with their evils and their cure, deserve the careful attention of all who would improve the condition of the world. It will be perceived, by allusions already made, that it is not uncertainties in the history of monarchs and battles merely, to which I refer, or in humble pedigrees confined to books of heraldry and family coats-of-arms, but it is those in history in its broadest sense, including what relates to the literature, and the general progress and great moral movements of society, as well as remarkable changes in rulers and forms of government. So, the uncertainties themselves, to which your attention is invited, are not merely the outright falsehoods and blunders, in which some annals abound, nor those imperfections in human affairs, which are inseparable from the finite faculties of man, as an individual, subject to a brief span of life, and those numerous interruptions by which the labors of many arc so often baffled. They are not so much matters like these, as the doubts and obscurities in history, which arise from any cause whatever, and which affect not only individuals, but the l

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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History: Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, Before the Capitol Hill Institute, December 17, 1842

Nor can any now, after careful reflection, deny the utility of ma chinery, by which the labor of millions is yearly saved or added, however many individuals may at first have been thrown out of employment by its introduction, and however deep the doubts and darkness may yet rest over the inventors of the plough, the loom, the axe, or the graceful ship-inventors as distinguished in their day, and of machinery as important to the welfare of mankind, as Whitney and the cotton-gin, or Arkwright and the spinning-jenny.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331490200
• ISBN 13: 9781331490203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30