Excerpt from Address Delivered to the Members of the Norwich Athenaeum: October the 17th, 1845 My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen, We assemble this evening on a highly interesting and important occasion: interesting, since it shews how much, even in a short time, may be accomplished by desire of improvement and harmony of purpose; and important, since its results, if they continue under the guidance of right principles, extend not only over the present hour, but to a future pregnant with intellectual and moral good. For on this, which may be called the second birth-day of the Norwich Athenaeum, you reaffirm the resolution which brought you together originally - to provide for yourselves the means of intellectual development and innocent relaxation, and thus turn to good account your larger leisure and increased facilities for self-culture. Nor in this resolution have you consulted your own interests alone. 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.