Eulogium Upon Wilberforce: With a Brief Incidental Review of the Subject of Colonization, Delivered, at the Request of the Abolition Society, Mar

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Excerpt from Eulogium Upon Wilberforce: With a Brief Incidental Review of the Subject of Colonization, Delivered, at the Request of the Abolition Society, March 10, 1834Biography is individual history, as distinguished from that of communities, of nations, and of worlds. Eulogy is that deserved applause which springs from the virtues and attaches itself to the characters of men. With this understanding, perhaps, there is no more illustrious subject of encomium - none more largely entitled to, and none less requiring the voice of praise than William Wilberforce. One whose practical be nevolence was its own best monument - whose wide spread philanthropy, while it acknowledged no limits but the boundaries of the world, the melancholy sphere to which human action is confined, Operated upon prin ciples as extensive - as immutable - as eternal as truth itself. It is not to reward him - for if private and public worth be an earnest of future bliss, he has already re ceived an unearthly reward in the bosom of his Saviour but it is to inculcate upon others the moral beauty and value of his example, that we, my fellow-citizens, have this day assembled. His benignant spirit, re moved from a state of temporal warfare and temporal sorrow to the realms of the just made perfect, looks down from its blessed abode upon his disciples in the great cause of human freedom, and lights, and leads, and lures them on, to the accomplishment of that im mortal work, which he himself so gloriously begun so devotedly pursued - so extensively achieved.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.