Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Humanities Gone and to Come, an Address: And Ad Astra: An Ode
Retrospect is the privilege of age; prophecy the foible of youth. I can lay claim to your indulgence for neither. The present is only a passing link in the swiftly running chain of time. It rivets the eye but for a moment. He that neglects the past neglects that which has made him What he is. He that neglects the promises and the warnings of the present as to things to come, as to things which he may help to shape in their coming, is already ?oating, a mere piece Of wreckage on the ocean of time.
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