Early Poets of Vermont Read at Brattleboro, Oct; 18, 1860
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Excerpt from Early Poets of Vermont Read at Brattleboro, Oct; 18, 1860: Before the Vermont Historical Society The real life of a people takes a deeper and more permanent coloring from its literature than from any other source of influence. External circumstances change as rapidly as the scenes in the kaleidoscope, and the impression made by one set is speedily effaced by another. Social customs vary, from generation to generation, leaving scanty traces of their in¿uence, after the lapse of a few scores of years. Law, though powerful while it continues, is subject to constant modi¿cation and to repeal, and is not permanently felt. Literature enters into the very mind and heart of a people, becomes a component part of their very nature, and makes itself felt not only in private but in active life. Nor does its in¿uence pass away with the generation which ¿rst experienced its power. Committed to the preserving care of the press, it survives from century to century, and exerts its power in lands far distant and upon people far removed in time from the place and the century in which it had its birth. It corrupts or puri¿es, exalts or debases, barbarizes or re¿nes, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. Never was there a wiser saying than that of Fletcher of Saltoun, "Let me make the ballads of a people and I care not who makes its laws." The wisdom of that remark we have ourselves seen illustrated on a grand scale within the last half dozen years, for what law during that time has exerted upon the popular mind an in¿uence so powerful as the song of the Star Spangled Banner or the rude ballad of John Brown´s Body Lies Moldering in the Grave? 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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