Excerpt from To George William Curtis: Who Has by His Life Illustrated the Duty of the American Scholar to the State, This Discourse; Is Affectionately Inscribed ON this calm June day, decorated by all the beauty and splendor of the season, when the air is sweet with opening buds, and perfumed with flowers, we have come from our accustomed avocations, and with prayer and music, and civic procession, seek to honor the occasion upon which, one hundred years ago, our fathers stood in a heroic struggle for independence. 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.