Excerpt from An Address The opening of so large a new world, now the center of wealth and prosperity, with all its varied experiences, makes its history much more practical, instructive and interesting to us than all the history Of the Old world. We are here to remember especially the event. If some other than Columbus had made the discovery we should still be here as now. Yet every, or nearly every, great event in the world's history, however, has its hero, and Columbus was a man of great qualities. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from An Address The opening of so large a new world, now the center of wealth and prosperity, with all its varied experiences, makes its history much more practical, instructive and interesting to us than all the history Of the Old world. We are here to remember especially the event. If some other than Columbus had made the discovery we should still be here as now. Yet every, or nearly every, great event in the world's history, however, has its hero, and Columbus was a man of great qualities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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