Author: M. J. Spalding

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780483307087

Excerpt from Miscellanea, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects; Theological and Miscellaneous Still we are not satisfied. We are always in a restless fever Of agitation and excitement. We are never at rest, but when we are in motion. We forget what is past, and we bend forward to what is future. Past dis coveries, great and magnificent as they are, are all counted as nothing; we anticipate something much more brilliant in the future. The surface Of society is like that of the ocean lashed into foamy billows by the winds Of heaven. But, unlike the sea, we are never at rest. The great charac teristic Of the age is progress. We must progress in every thing; in the arts, in the sciences, in legislation, in philosophy, and even in religion! We are always looking restlessly ahead. Inventions, which once dazzled the world with their brilliancy and promise Of usefulness, have been long since superseded and forgotten. The cumbrous and imperfect steamboat machinery Of Blasco de Garay and Of Biancas were superseded by the more simple and manageable apparatus Of Fulton; While this too, in its turn, has given way to the more available methods suggested by recent discoveries. 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.