A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History
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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History: Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, Before the Capitol Hill Institute, December 17, 1842 It has been an interesting enquiry in all ages - What is the Truth? At the foundation of this enquiry, whether relating to science, the arts, politics, or religion, has been an early, if not the greatest question - What is the truth in History? What does it show, on the momentous topics - Whence came we? When? Where? Why? Whither do we tend? What have been the chief instruments to advance, or retard, the human race? How long is its progress to last? And what, for greater weal or woe, is to be the consummation of its destiny? Considerations like these are vital to all. But, on this occasion, I do not propose to glance at any of them, except the uncertainties which exist in much of history. These, with their evils and their cure, deserve the careful attention of all who would improve the condition of the world. It will be perceived, by allusions already made, that it is not uncertainties in the history of monarchs and battles merely, to which I refer, or in humble pedigrees confined to books of heraldry and family coats-of-arms, but it is those in history in its broadest sense, including what relates to the literature, and the general progress and great moral movements of society, as well as remarkable changes in rulers and forms of government. So, the uncertainties themselves, to which your attention is invited, are not merely the outright falsehoods and blunders, in which some annals abound, nor those imperfections in human affairs, which are inseparable from the finite faculties of man, as an individual, subject to a brief span of life, and those numerous interruptions by which the labors of many arc so often baffled. They are not so much matters like these, as the doubts and obscurities in history, which arise from any cause whatever, and which affect not only individuals, but the longer life and continued labors of the human race as a race; such, too, as affect them by not preserving with accuracy the principles, powers, deeds, and condition of man, through centuries and the duration of empires, and even through a series of the rise and fall of many empires, and in a manner most conducive to the instruction, security, and progress of the world at large. These uncertainties are the most striking when connected with accounts of the earliest ages. Then all, in profane history, is either a blank, or obscured in the mist of fable and the imagery of epic, or the mythology of legendary lore. 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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