A Discourse, Delivered at the Opening of the Providence Athenæum, July 11, 1838 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered at the Opening of the Providence Athenæum, July 11, 1838With the history of this undertaking, you are, I presume, sufficiently acquainted. Two preceding efforts for supplying the intellectual wants of this city had nearly proved abortive, when a munifi cent donation from one of our most distinguished families imparted new vigor to the enterprise, and the zealous co-operation Of a liberal public has carried it forward to a successful termination. About seven thousand volumes, selected with the greatest care, and comprising a most valuable portion of the literature Of our language, are al ready spread open before you. A library of greater extent than adorns the mansion of probably any private individual in our country, is accessible to every one of us. Nor is this all. The plan of the institution embraces arrangements for the re ception Of every thing, either useful or interesting, in the periodical literature of the day. Ithus, every one among us has the opportunity of tracing, through previous ages, the progress of the human mind, he may, here, at any moment, learn, not only What man has done, but what man is actually doing. The past and the present are both equally Open to his inspection and his mind can hold high communion with the mighty living, and with the yet more mighty dead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.