The Review of a Generation (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Review of a Generation One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. Ecclesiastes 1:4 The statement here made, like the others that follow in the chapter, seems designed only to express the universality and permanence of natural sequences in the world. The same phenomena in air and earth and sea constantly repeat themselves. The thing that hath been is that which shall be. This uniformity.gives validity to the lessons of experience, and enables us to reason effectively from the past to the future. But the text viewed apart from its connection suggests what is a very trite and yet very affecting truth. The earth abides from age to age, yet man, for whom it was made, flits like a shadow across its surface. The race survives, but the component parts are a perpetual succession. As the Son of Sirach says (Ecclesiasticus XIV:18): "As of the green leaves on a thick tree some fall and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end and another is born." The same comparison was used by Homer ages before. "Like the race of leaves Is that of humankind. Upon the ground The winds strew one years leaves; the sprouting grove Puts forth another brood that shoot and grow In the Spring season. So it is with man: One generation grows while one decays." (II. VI:186. Bryant´s Version.) The same thought was expressed in a different form by the Apostle when he reminded the Corinthians, that "the fashion of this world passeth away." The allusion is to the shifting scenes of a theatre. But the scenes shift because the action of the play advances. 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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