Excerpt from Address Every movement that affects permanently a na tion's life passes through three stages. First it is the abstract idea, understood by few. Next it is the subject of agitation and earnest general discus sion. Third, after it has won its way to a sure place in the national life, comes the era of practical adap tation. Mistakes and extravagances due to the enthusiasm of friends or the malice of enemies are corrected, details are fitted to actual needs, the divine idea is harnessed to the common needs of man. In this stage, which the conservation move ment has now reached, the most difficult and im portant work must he'done. 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.