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Excerpt from Upward Steps of Seventy Years: Autobiographic, Biographic, Historic; Growth of Reforms Anti-Slavery, Etc; The World's Helpers and Light-Bringers Spiritualism Psychic Research Religious Outlook Coming Reforms
IT was my fortune to be born in Massachusetts in 1817, in the days between the old and the new time, - before the coming of the great reforms that have healthfully shaken the nation in the past fifty years before the age of modern science and varied industry, and Of larger freedom of religious thought and spiritual experience. In my New England childhood Puritanism largely gave its cast and aspect to life, for good and ill; now we breathe a new atmosphere. 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.
