An Address Delivered Before the Pioneer and Historical Society of Pickaway County (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Pioneer and Historical Society of Pickaway CountyWow - umrealize that they were men like ourselves, of like virtues and faults, hopes and fears. The true philosophy of history must be sought in the hearts and lives of the people, not in the tomes of artifi cial diplomatic correspondence, or in books which detail the fortunes of dynasties. The permanency of free institutions rests upon the principle that there is in human society a perpetually progressive tendency, and that all the political, social and moral revolutions of the world inevitably promote the elevation of humanity. This development of course best traced in the homely but important facts and events of common life which is the duty of associations like this to collect and record.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.