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Excerpt from The Mission and Problem of American Society: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Centre College, June 28th, 1848
Of the Providential indications of. A glorious mission for American Society, one of the most striking is the peculiar juncture at which the English colonies were planted on this continent. A leading fact of modern history, is the struggle of libertylagainst arbitrary power, which first took the attitude of open and decided hostility in England, during the earlier part of the seventeenth century. Of the sudden and rapid growth which then took place, in the light and warmth of a free christi unity, of those germs of liberty which had for ages been lurking in the English constitution and English Society, a hardy offshoot was planted in the virgin soil of America, Assailed by the rudest blasts, and ex? Posed in its infancy to all the vicissitudes of an inhospitable wilderness, it has sent out its roots wide' and deep, and climbed through the region of the storm, until, its top is now in the heavens and its shadow over a, continent. 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.
