The Old and the New Century

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Excerpt from The Old and the New Century: An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society on Its Ninety-Sixth Anniversary, Tuesday, November 20, 1900Your own archives, so laboriously amassed and so carefully classified, offer to a speaker a most se ductive temptation to indulge in gossipy details and contrasts, with only a small part of which it would be easy to consume the whole evening. This temptation I shall resist, but it will none the less be helpful if we orient ourselves by noting a few salient facts.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.