An Address Delivered Before the Franklin County Agricultural Society: Greenfield, October 4, 1855 (Classic Reprint): Greenfield, October 4, 1855 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Boutwell, George S.

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ISBN 10: 1334096740 ISBN 13: 9781334096747

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Franklin County Agricultural Society: Greenfield, October 4, 1855

We respect hills, mountains, forests, waterfalls, and the ocean. There is not only an inspiration in these, the grandest works of nature, but there is a religion in them also. The dweller among mountains, the wanderer in the forest, or upon the shore of the ocean, is a continual worshiper. God has made him so. Nature is not the same everywhere, and what nature is, man, to a great extent, is also. Indeed, without seeking for the reason or principle of the law, we expect the mountaineer to be vigorous in body, and strong, though perhaps nucul tivated, in intellect.

We associate physical indolence with great fertility of soil, and positive inability to labor with uninterrupted salubrity of climate. Switzerland is a small country, but her mountains are indicative of the greatness of her people, who, for ten centuries, by their comparative social purity and political freedom, have attracted the attention of the world far more than the populous states and principalities of Germany. Germany has, to be sure, a high rank for learning, but it is associated with a sluggish civilization, which might, under adverse cir cumstances, be easily exchanged for an effeminate barbarism. And the millions of the great Russian plains, if unsupported by mental or physical force from without, will too readily accept the conqueror's yoke, while the Swiss on the one hand and the Caucasian races on the other, would resist to the last extremity. A race of mountaineers may remain isolated for centu ries without loss of spirit or character, though the graces of civilization might be totally efi'aced. But this cannot with truth be said of the inhabitants of flat countries. And we may, perchance, get a glimpse of the philosophy of this fact. Mountains are not usuallyt)'

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Franklin County Agricultural Society: Greenfield, October 4, 1855

I will not, however, deceive myself nor attempt to mislead you, by assuming that the West is not a region of great fertility and abundant harvests. Equally for tanate is it for the East, as for the West, that it is so. I shall only venture to indicate that the West is not in every respect superior to the East, and that we have some compensations for the hardness of New England soil and the rigor of our northern climate. Our opin ion of a foreign land does not rest so much upon its soil and climate as upon the character of its men. We well know that Egypt and Ireland are among the fa vored portions of the globe, yet we respect the perpet ual enemies of Russia in the mountains of Caucasus more than we do the inhabitants of the Nile, and would sooner cast our lot in Sweden, Norway, or Iceland even, than cultivate the bogs of the Shannon or the moors of Donegal. One of the cultivated and useful men of Massachusetts asks me in a letter what oppor tunity the vicinity of my own residence furnishes for a home, when he shall be relieved from his present cares and labors. And he says, what I most of all seek is a home among warm hearts and active souls, where there is pure air, pure water, and mountain scenery.

We respect hills, mountains, forests, waterfalls, and the ocean. There is not only an inspiration in these, the grandest works of nature, but there is a religion in them also. The dweller among mountains, the wanderer in the forest, or upon the shore of the ocean, is a continual worshiper. God has made him so. Nature is not the same everywhere, and what nature is, man, to a great extent, is also. Indeed, without seeking for the reason or principle of the law, we expect the mountaineer to be vigorous in body, and strong, though perhaps nucul tivated, in intellect.

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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334096740
• ISBN 13: 9781334096747
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 28