Excerpt from The Well-Instructed Scribe; Or Reform and Conservatism: A Sermon Preached at the Installation One of the most universal distinctions which can be made among men, is that which divides them into conservatives and reformers. Ln politics, in religion, in literature, in science, in social customs, in everything which interests man, you will find these two classes. There are those who love the old, and those who love the new; those who dread change, and those Who desire it; the cautious, and the hopeful; those who inquire why the former days were so much better than these P and those who complain, that, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were. There are those who look with reverence to the past, and those who look with hope to the future; those to whom the ancient world seems peopled with demigods, and the present century with pigmies; and those to whom the coming. 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.