Author: Vermont Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780483866898

Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Vermont Historical Society: In the Representatives' Hall, Montpelier, October 16, 1866 The quality of mind which we call curiosity, is one whence Springs many of our greatest achievements. It is the search on which the visible and apparent present sends the mind back over the mighty past for the causes and antecedents that have, through chan nels and by processes more or less direct, but always logical, produced the results which engage our wonder, our admiration, or our dislike, as the case may be. The fuel it has furnished has kindled the fires of all invention, and has brought to their present wonderful and almost miraculous state of advancement, many of those sciences and arts most useful, practically, to men. And it has no less operated beneficially in presenting to each succeeding age and generation, the lives and peculiarities of notable men of times past, whose characters have in greater or less degree impressed themselves upon the growth of society, and so transfused them into the very life of after times. From fountains thus unsealed, the historian deduces the principles of moral and political economies; and the just ambition of those who aspire to greatness, beholds the processes and the causes - always in the main constant - which have led men to success, or driven them to failure. 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.