The Unveiling Of The Seward Memorial Statue

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ISBN 13 : 9781331327653
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Seward Memorial written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seward Memorial: The Ceremonies at the Unveiling of the Statue of William H. Seward, in Madison Square, New York, September 17, 1876, With Description of the Statue and List of Subscribers Not many years ago New York had no statues. Often has this fact been urged upon our attention: many and uncomplimentary have been the attempts to explain it. We have been accused of lack of patriotism, dearth of public spirit, and want of culture. We admit the fact, but we decline to accept the explanations. The fault, if fault there were, lay not with us, but with the age. The world, to a certain extent, has outgrown statues. Sculpture is the oldest of the arts. In the childhood of the race, before man had fairly learned to read, and could write but slowly and laboriously, the sword made history, and the chisel recorded it. Assyria carved her conquests on her palace-walls; the records of Egypt are hieroglyphed in her temples and her tombs; to her heroes Rome decreed statues, that their names might live, and their deeds be unforgotten. We have better means for accomplishing such ends. The sculptor is no longer an historian. Type has superseded the chisel. We are right in refusing to revive the methods of younger and less-advanced civilization. We devote a newspaper paragraph to events, whose like we find imperishably commemorated on the walls of Nineveh and Luxor. The pages of printed history sufficiently record for us the names of men to whose peers the senate and people of Rome have voted statues. But we do not altogether reject sculpture. 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.