American Progress: A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati, December 3, 1846 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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[The following Lecture was prepared while its Author was an invalid, delivered just en the eve of his removal from Cincinnati, and printed after his departure. The statistical character of a large portion of it, rendered careful revision greatly desirable; but this, owing to the circumstances above named, was impossible. Nevertheless, the statements made, in the Lecture, it is believed, will be found to be correct, in all material points.] - The Author.

It is the tendency of the Reformers of a Country - the pioneers of its progressive movements - so to concentrate their attention on its evil characteristics, as to overlook in it what is valuable. Contemplating the good they would obtain for it, and mortified at the distance it falls short, they too often yield to the illusion that it is receding, instead of advancing; and in this way, the grandest of all sentiments, - a profound devotion to absolute Truth, - is perverted to the injury of another feeling, far less exalted, it is true, but still noble in its nature, and the source of many illustrious deeds - the Love of Country.

What does a benevolent Philosophy teach? Cast your eye back over the records of the past: mark the slow, laborious, almost imperceptible progress of Humanity - its ever-changing prospects - its sudden recessions - its inexplicable advances - how, after an apparent relapse into Barbarism, it would emerge under a loftier form, upon higher ground, sweeping the horizon with a more comprehensive gaze, and treading with a firmer step.

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