Excerpt from Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago With individuals, all growth and progress are dependent upon the cultivation of memory; bereft Of this, the wisest statesman would in stantly become as a puling babe. With peoples the sum total of knowledge of their past cor responds to memory in the case of the individ ual. This body of knowledge in the case of any given people constitutes its history. Only by its assiduous cultivation can a people de velop a national consciousness and soul. That the people of ...
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Excerpt from Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago With individuals, all growth and progress are dependent upon the cultivation of memory; bereft Of this, the wisest statesman would in stantly become as a puling babe. With peoples the sum total of knowledge of their past cor responds to memory in the case of the individ ual. This body of knowledge in the case of any given people constitutes its history. Only by its assiduous cultivation can a people de velop a national consciousness and soul. That the people of Illinois are not unmindful of this fact and do not intend to permit their precious historical heritage to perish through neglect, is evident from the record of their centennial year. By way of presenting some slight con tribution to the state's centennial Observances it has seemed appropriate this yearto reproduce in the annual volume of Lakeside Classics some first-hand descriptions by contemporary observ ers Of the Illinois Of one hundred years ago. 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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