Reminiscences of Parmenas Taylor Turnley, From the Cradle to Three-Score and Ten; By Himself, From Diaries Kept From Early Boyhood
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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Parmenas Taylor Turnley, From the Cradle to Three-Score and Ten; By Himself, From Diaries Kept From Early Boyhood: With a Brief Glance Backward Three Hundred and Fifty Years at Progenitors and Ancestral Lineage There seems to be in the human heart instinctive desire to preserve one´s race and name coeval with man´s advent on earth, and is shared alike by the barbarian and the civilized! Ambition animates a large portion; while hope, we may suppose, lingers in the minds of the remainder! Things real as well as imaginary flash up to the mind as possibilities; and we travel on with mind and hopes sustained and accelerated by - what may be - and too often fail to utilize what is, and what has been! It is said there is nothing new under the sun? This must mean that what is has been before and shall recur in the future? The desire and ambition to excel others in the race of earthly existence, and to stand pre-eminent is, and always will be, the potent force to move men to great action; and this too, quite regardless of any moral phase of means to an end! Success alone really succeeds! and absolute, visible, tangible force is the Archimedean lever that conquers, and at the same time becomes the corner-stone of all kinds of human government, since the world began! Therefore it is that the art of destroying life by war opens the widest field for success, and the creating of heroes; and will always be the chief factor in founding and controlling human governments! Mankind are worshipers of idols ;the more enlightened preferring the man hero, rather than the dumb stock and stone! It is war that creates heroes! therefore the masses crave war! A few people here and there, at different epochs and periods, in sentimental moods of despondency, or of occasional religious fervor, may decry the strong arm of the sword, and advocate tribunes of arbitration; but such advocacy will never prevail; and such peaceful tribune will ever be the iridescent dream of the imagination! 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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