Washington
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Washington: Address Before the Union League Club of Chicago There is no man living anywhere, with whatever honors his life may have been crowned, to whom it would not be an added honor to be invited to address this brilliant company in this famous city on this historic anniversary. Chicago is conspicuous among the great cities of the world for many things. In two things she stands unrivalled. Great as she is to-day, wonderful as has been her past, yet she is, beyond all other communities, the city of the future. She may well look forward with an assured and sober confidence to the time when the scepter, which passed away from Rome, shall pass away from London also, and shall be within her grasp. Chicago is foremost among American cities, foremost, so far as I know, among the cities of the world, in the great virtue of public spirit. If we can judge by the report of her, the citizen of Chicago seems to feel, to a degree not found elsewhere, that her honor is his honor, that her prosperity is his prosperity, and that all he is and has is at her service. It is of this temper that civic greatness is born. Yet to a people having the right that you have to be proud of their present, and looking forward as you do with a confident courage and hope to a great hereafter, there is a peculiar and special danger. That is the danger of Provincialism, the danger of that spirit which is impatient of the authority of the past, and of the contemporary opinion of mankind. 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.
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