Richard S. Storrs
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 342
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Excerpt from The Constitution of the Human Soul: Six Lectures Delivered at the Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn In publishing this, the first course of Graham Lectures, delivered at the Brooklyn Institute, it appears proper to give the public some account of the Institute itself, and of the origin of the lectures to be delivered on Sunday evening, as provided for in the will of the late Augustus Graham, on the "Wisdom, Power and Goodness of God, as manifested in his works." In the summer of 1823, some gentlemen, among whom were Augustus Graham, Robert Snow, and Alden Spooner, met at Stevenson's Hotel for the purpose of establishing a Free Library for the apprentices in the city of Brooklyn. After several meetings, they adopted a constitution, in which they expressed themselves as "desirous of extending the benefits of knowledge to that portion of our youth who are engaged in learning the mechanic arts, thereby to qualify them for becoming useful and respectable members of society;" and also, "of collecting and establishing a library for the benefit of apprentices." 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.