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Excerpt from Historical Address, Before the Congregational Church, in Salisbury, Conn: At Their First Centennial Celebration, November 20, 1844 To be ignorant of what happened before we were born, says an ancient sage, is to be always a child. History is but the tribute which the present pays to the past. If it be right to reverence old age, then is it right to reverence antiquity. It is simply the love Of kindred and ancestry and a nation or an indi vidual without this feeling, must ever be heady and high-minded, rash and revolutionary. It is a conservative feeling - a sober, filial, submissive feeling; essential to a good mind -essential to peace, and good order, and wise thinking, and judicious advance - and they who would hastily condemn or break away from the sentiments of their fathers, rejecting them because they are old, and for the mere sake of showing their independence and supe riority, prove that they are lacking in the best elements of men tal greatness. They are unwise men - men of conceit - proud, ambitious, self-sufficient, headlong; men whom we cannot love, and whom we will not trust. 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.