The Future Of The Country Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Future of the Country We are but too we aware that human knowledge can never, by the very laws of its nature, penetrate the mist that surrounds future events. Not that the what will be, as far as it is to become the reality of a moral ideal, is beyond the vision of the human mind, but because between it and its ultimate realization there ever enters that wizard phantom, Time, with its disappointments, postponements, and consequent crushing of hopes. The idealist, who perceives the perfection of man as a certain fact of the future, is no idle dreamer, or cheating prophet; his vision of a state of full happiness and general development of the human race will at one time be most certainly a reality; but on the When? on the question of years, of centuries, within which this idea will be realized, a Uhis calculations shatter and become idle speculations; and we laugh at his Utopia, because six or seven thousand years have failed to realize it. That all-powerful, all-loving God, who created man, not a perfect being, the slave of preordained goodness and happiness, but in that grand state of imperfection, with merely the faculties and the choice to work his perfection, which placed him in possession of Gods greatest gift - Liberty; Him we may safely trust, that this Liberty is no illusion, but that it will finally work into this world the representation of that divine spirit, from which it emanates. 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.