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Excerpt from Captain John Smith and His Critics: A Lecture Before the Society for Geographical and Historical Study of Richmond College
But how his name and fame did and does survive! With such living force that his deeds and character are discussed to-day, when he is dead two hundred and fifty years, with a zeal and energy not often evoked for a living personage. The limits of this occasion forbid any elab orate introduction of the subject, and allow but brief and scant notice of Smith's early history, or of the character and spirit of the age in which he lived and acted his part - knowledge and note of which latter is essentially necessary for any proper under standing of him and his life. Lacking time for the setting of this historic back-ground, I can only refer you to histories of the period and to the numerous works on and studies of that age in which our recent literature is particularly rich. 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.
