An Oration
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Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society at Cambridge, July 4, 1814 The day which we have met to celebrate, we once vainly imagined, was to work an universal change in the condition and character of man; that it was to spread its light over the nations which we supposed were sitting in the gloom of slavery, ignorance and crime; and that they were to come forth the renovated beings of freedom, wisdom and virtue. In vision, the very face of nature was changing; every weak thing was waxing strong, and every dry thing green. The world, with its swamps and deserts, was shooting forth in all the beauty and freshness of Eden; and man walking in the midst, sinless and free as Adam. But, alas! all that our fevered imaginations pictured out was but a dream. The physical and moral world have undergone no change - notwithstanding the American Revolution, Arabia still has its deserts, and mankind their sins. Human nature has not yet reached that stage of perfectibility in which laws are but useless entanglements, and the power of government but a cumbrous restraint upon virtue. Cunning and violence are not yet eradicated; the simple are still defrauded, and the weak oppressed; the prodigal is neighbour to the frugal, the idle to the industrious, the factious to the peaceable. 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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