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Excerpt from The North American, Vol. 76: January, 1853 WE talk and hear much about the shortness of human life and in many Of its aspects, it is a dream, a shadow, a vapor. NO metaphor can overstate its brevity, as compared with its Offices and its issues. There die, every year, thousands of Old people, who have been all their days preparing and beginning to live, and who pass away before they are conscious of hav ing approached even their own humble ideal of life, its objects and its uses. But there appear, at intervals, sometimes in stations of eminent influence, Oftener in the more retired walks of duty, those who so crowd their two, three, or four score years with acquisition or achievement, as indefinitely to enlarge the reputed capacity, and to enhance the current value, of their term Of being. They seem, not indeed absolutely, but rela tively, to exhaust the resources of their present condition. They read a portion of the record oii every leaf Of the great book of nature and of experience, and become so familiar with the aspect of what they have omitted to read, that it has ceased to stimulate their curiosity, so that, as regards their birth-world, they have reached a position from which they can claim a better inheritance. 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.

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