Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the Western University of Pennsylvania: On Tuesday, August 9, 1842
The age in which we live, distinguished for a succession of extraordinary events, may, in some respects, be denominated with propriety a golden age. For an unusual period wars have comparatively ceased throughout the peace in all her loveliness hath overspread the civilized world. With the exception of occasional outbreaks, and temporary collisions of no general consequence, a political calm hath succeeded centu ries of almost continual convulsion and storm.
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