Inaugural Address Delivered in the State House, Dec
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Excerpt from Inaugural Address Delivered in the State House, Dec: 8, 1857, by Order of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolian College Edmund Burke, in his admirable Essay on the "Sublime and Beautiful," declares that "It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions." The sentiment thus distinctly and unequivocally enunciated by one of the most elegant and accomplished writers of the last century, seems to have found a very general approving response in the minds of his successors. A deep-rooted conviction appears to have taken possession of the public, that an increasing taste for the cultivation of the exact sciences, necessarily tends to chill the feelings, to dry up the fountains of those nobler enjoyments which spring from the contemplation of nature, and to rob her of the charm and magic of her power. They would have us believe, that in proportion as we learn more and more how to unveil the secrets of nature, in the same proportion do we stifle the vivifying breath of imagination, and obliterate the aesthetic feelings. I think it can be clearly shown, that such a sentiment in relation to the influence of the study of the physical sciences, is without the slightest foundation: - that the opprobrium is as unjust as its reign must be transitory. 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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