A Memorial Address

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Excerpt from A Memorial Address: Delivered at the Request of the City Council of Boston at the Installation of a Bronze Statue of Admiral Farragut in the Marine Park, June 28, 1893 There is no demonstration to which the heart responds more promptly and completely than to an exhibition of lofty and self-forgetful patriotism. It is this fact which gives significance to all memorial emblems, whether they be institutions, monuments, statues, or tablets, for they each and all seek to perpetuate deeds and the quality of lives which have won the admiration of mankind. We realize this in the efforts made to keep alive by private and specific emblems the affectionate memory and example of our departed relatives and friends, to whom we fondly attribute most of the virtues, but there is also a generic quality in the tribute to patriotism when the universal public concentrates its admiration upon an ideal, more or less frequently represented by an individual example, worthy of the emulation of all men. Indeed, it is this ideal - the measure of a character lying behind all action - as well as the deeds themselves which we seek to commemorate. This endowment appears to be inherent in human nature, and hence among all nations and in all periods of time we find monuments commemorative of those esteemed to be wise, or good, or heroic, which monuments are at one and the same time evidences of the grandeur of genuine manhood, and the authoritative teachers of all subsequent generations. 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.