An Address Before the Georgia Medical Society, on Its Sixty-Fourth Anniversary, January 9, 1869 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Address Before the Georgia Medical Society, on Its Sixty-Fourth Anniversary, January 9, 1869If we were to lose the records of the past, man would have to begin his training de novo, and it would require centuries upon centuries to invent again those material aids to civilization which have been developed in the progress of time, or to elucidate and explain the great moral truths which have exercised the subtlest intellects of Greece 'and Rome. Look at the wonderful monu ments of Egypt! Their history is indelibly written in hieroglyphic characters upon enduring granite. The Chevalier Bunsen, the head of the Evangelical school of modern Prussia, in his great work Egypt's Place in Universal History, has allowed a period of twenty thousand years for the authentic development of her civilization. The solution of the riddle of the hiero glyphics by Dr. Young and Champollion Le Jeun, has restored a long missing link in the chain of the history of the past, and has had its proportionate eti'ect. Tallado to these things because of the evident feeling which we all have to learn what has occurred before our time. We seem to realize the idea of the metempsychosis of Py thagoras, and to believe that our souls had, in times past, filled the bodies of some of the warriors and sages of antiquity. Surely, oftentimes a pleasant and a harmless illusion of fancy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.