Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration Before the City Authorities of Boston: On the Fourth of July, 1873
Unlike other nations, ours has no pre-historic existence. Out Of a vast, vague past no grim ances try looks at us. We do not draw our blood of the demi-gods of classic antiquity, or the wild heroes Of the Norse Valhalla. Into no dreamy myth-land do we wander searching the corner on which to rest our pedigree. No heraldry blazoned with emblems of forgotten Significance, no legends hoar with gathered years, lend their fictitious dignity. It pleases us sometimes to tie ourselves back to an anglo-saxon ancestry, and, when we are a little mad with England, we grow specially rhetorical about a common origin and a common property in her language, literature and fame. But it is not so at all. We are a new. 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.
