The Use and Study of History

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Excerpt from The Use and Study of History: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered in Dublin, in March, 1841But history has higher claims. You are citizens of a free state, you are morally, intellec tually, politically - and therefore in a thousand ways you responsibly are men. Directly or in directly - palpably or unapparently - the fate of yourselves, and of your children after you is in your own hands. If blind, and satisfied with blindness -if ignorant, and content to remain so - I will not say the doom of your land is irrevocably sealed, but I will say I see no h0pe of its regene ration. But if, as the numbers I this night ad dress in themselves demonstrate, you yearn after knowledge, and are open-eared to honest teach ing, then have I great hopes, buoyant expecta tions, and a fixed faith in your ability and will to Call our country from the tomb.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.