An Address Delivered to the Colonization Society of Kentucky, at Frankfort, Jan
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered to the Colonization Society of Kentucky, at Frankfort, Jan: 15, 1835 We live, my audience, in an age full of interest to the heart of the philanthropist. The moral, religious, and intellectual excitement pervading Christian countries, presages the accomplishment of great works, in which mankind are to be blessed. Those principles of morals, of science, and of government, which regulate the affairs of civilized nations and individuals, must be extended throughout the world; otherwise, all that is good and magnificent in the past achievements of our race, is in danger. If ignorance should triumph over knowledge, and vice trample virtue under foot, the lights of science and of art which now illuminate the territories of many nations, may be extinguished forever, and the reign of barbarism cover the earth with gloom, till the end of time. If we contrast the present with any former period, we shall find much cause for exultation in the progress which has been made in meliorating the condition of large portions of the human family. Such contrast, while it encourages benevolent efforts in behalf of those who still remain enveloped in ignorance and vice, affords strong reason to hope that the future will elevate the prostrate nations of the earth to that happy eminence on which the most exalted are now placed. The sources of enjoyment have been vastly multiplied within the last two or three hundred years, comparing the improvements made in that time, with the state of the arts, the sciences, the physical and intellectual condition of man, as they existed during the preceding thousands of years; and the progress made in the last fifty years of the three hundred, has greatly exceeded that of the preceding two hundred and fifty. Were the illustrious men who lived in the most renowned periods of Greek and Roman History, permitted to revisit the earth, and to look upon all that is now going forward in it, we can scarcely imagine the degree of astonishment which would fill their minds in contemplating the new order of things introduced by modern inventions. 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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