First Discourse Before the Maryland Historical Society

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Excerpt from First Discourse Before the Maryland Historical Society: Delivered on 20 June, 1844 The sceptred genius of Scott has won our hearts to the devoted task of his "Old Mortality." A strange freak of Antiquarian passion it might be termed by the utilitarian spirit that browses but for the present and within its narrow animal verge. But how tender, - though eccentric be his recluseness, - is the taste of that old votary of the tablets of the dead. It is his to retrace and revive the characters of the memorial which affection has committed to the silent stone, and to recal from decay the recorded tribute of sorrow - to bring to life the virtue which graces the ruin of the mouldering frame, and at the sepulchre to, light up the example that is to give lineaments for the future. Let a kindred zeal glow but within the limits of sect or party, I still it is a virtuous zeal. Let it be the pride of honoured heraldry and spotless lineage, the impulse is yet of noble birth and holds converse only with exalted sentiment. Let State pride urge its way among legends of trial and effort and the triumphs of energy - and open the tomb of the past, that, in radiant effusion, the memory of the good may brighten the empire of humanity. If that pride exult in successions of the wise and brave whose names enamel History and whose Historic urns are wreathed with their excellence - all this shall not be deemed idle - nor unworthy a self-sustaining, - self-dependent republicanism. Such recurrences are to Life's consummations, - to the glories of experience - the accumulations of fact and monition and incentive for which Time itself was made and for which ages have rolled and which make up the pomp and freight of Destiny. 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.