Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Genealogical History of the Croke Family, Originally Named Le Blount, Vol. 1
But another still more beneficial use may be made of this history. The review of so many persons and generations, passing rapidly over the theatre of life, may impress upon your minds a great truth, which I have lived long enough to feel in my own experience, but which, in the ardour of youth, you may probably have hitherto overlooked, That this world is nothing more than a succession of mere phantoms, which appear upon the stage for a short time, and then vanish for ever: and that to ourselves even, in what we seem to be, and to enjoy, it is equally nusub stantial. To the past we are dead, the present transitory mo ment can scarcely be said to exist, and the contingencies of to-morrow are still more visionary. You will then be satisfied that nothing can be considered as real but our future state, and that no object is worth the pursuit of a rational being but a happiness which is of a very different character from any thing to be seen in this life, unchangeable, indestructible, and eternal. If this lesson, one of the most valuable which the whole com pass of science can teach you, from the moving pictures here represented, should strike you with such luminous evidence as it ought to do, and become the leading principle of your lives, I shall think my trouble amply rewarded.
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